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...Saddam runs true to type, he may see Bush's diplomatic overture as further proof that the coalition has neither the resolution nor the stamina to stay the course against him. If so, he will stiff James Baker as he has other emissaries -- and war will be inevitable...
...precisely such fears that Judge Wood intends to reinforce with her stiff sentencing of Milken, say experts. "We are dealing here with a theme that resonates very strongly in American society," says Columbia's Coffee. "It is that the abuse of responsibility by those in high places will be dealt with harshly." The government hopes to make the threat of harsh sentences for white-collar felons the pointed lesson of Michael Milken's fall...
Consumers worried about recession and war are shopping for bargains this year. Junk-bond king Michael Milken pulls a stiff ten-year prison term...
...class of souped-up substances called advanced materials. These novel building blocks are basically futuristic versions of present-day metals, glasses, plastics and ceramics. But unlike conventional counterparts, the materials are made with extra ingredients that greatly enhance their performance or give them new features. By blending in stiff carbon fibers, for example, modern-day alchemists have developed plastics that are up to 10 times as strong as conventional plastics. And by mixing copper with zinc and aluminum, scientists have produced a metal with a "memory": the stuff returns to its original shape after being bent or twisted...
This is a place populated by castoffs from the American Dream who still manage, against stiff odds, to hold on to some small scrap of spirit and some little bit of hope. Los Lobos can find a flinty spirituality in some unlikely places, including the gaze of a damaged child in Little John of God: "You can say with your eyes/ What others only say inside." Los Lobos has weathered its own internal trial, a loss of direction that followed the group's greatest popular success, and it is by going back to The Neighborhood that the band has finally...