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Time that McGouey spent hospitalized after the police failed to strike him with 27 of the 28 bullets fired at him and then succeeded only in grazing his shoulder with the final shot: 360 Minutes...
...waits patiently, cautiously targeting his prey, waiting for the moment to strike. Without warning he disappears into the shadow of an offensive lineman, reemerging on the other side as he lowers his shoulders and moves in for the kill...
...neighborhood’s petition, known as the Carlson petition, would have set stringent height limits on Harvard’s property, and Councillors Murphy and David P. Maher frequently met with Harvard officials this fall to try to strike an alternative deal...
...quarrel is with Israel alone. A senior Palestinian security source points the finger at a new culprit: the Arab Liberation Front (A.L.F.), a small P.L.O. group once backed by Saddam Hussein. This source tells TIME that the A.L.F. may have paid malcontents in Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction to strike at the U.S. to punish the occupiers of Iraq. A.L.F. officials would not comment. But any such link between Iraq and Palestinian violence would be a disturbing new development...
...Despite the taunt, most experts consider an al-Qaeda strike on Japan unlikely, due to the nation's tight immigration policies and stepped-up anti-terrorism efforts. At greater risk are Japanese abroad. "Embassies are hiring extra security," says Shinsuke Shimizu, director of the Foreign Ministry's International Counter-terrorism Cooperation division, "and Japanese residents in Southeast Asia are making contingency plans." The Japanese government has even distributed animated videotapes to expat Japanese with advice on how to survive a kidnapping or hijacking. Bin Laden has given Japan something it has happily lacked since World War II: an enemy...