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According to Santiago, the male struck the female student in the head and then kneed her in the chest...
Among the men, Jeff Rouse, 26, a Stanford graduate, struck gold in the 100-m backstroke--a medal that had eluded him in Barcelona--and rejoiced that he could no longer be called a choker. Brad Bridgewater, a 23-year-old Texan, won the 200-m backstroke; and Tom Dolan, the Michigan star whose struggle with asthma has made him one of the Games' heroes, captured a gold in the 400-m individual medley, even as his lungs seized up at the finish. Exhausted, he failed to medal in two other races. "My body just gave out," he said...
JERUSALEM: Before Benjamin Netanyahu won the Prime Ministership from Shimon Peres, Israeli officials had already struck a deal to create a Palestinian state, according to a senior adviser to Peres. In exchange for statehood, the Palestinians were prepared to drop demands for a capital in East Jerusalem, and allow Israel to annex about 10 percent of the West Bank. That understanding has been tabled by Netanyahu. His spokesman describes the deal as an "intellectual exercise," since neither side had formally agreed to them. Peres and Arafat reportedly had some doubts about the proposed settlement, but felt the understandings might serve...
Under Erickson, who was recruited in 1994 from discounter Reno Airlines, TWA has labored to become an up-to-date carrier. The company struck deals with workers and creditors that slashed $500 million from its $1.8 billion debt, including $130 million in reduced wages and benefits. TWA also cut its annual interest payments by $50 million. Incredibly, the airline only recently converted to computers to set fares and manage its inventory of seats to boost revenues for each flight. Notes Brian Harris, airline industry analyst for Lehman Bros.: "TWA had been operating in a 1970s time warp." This backwardness apparently...
...mercy"), but the setting and characters are commedia dell'arte. Puzo playfully admires the aging Don Dom. "Early on," he writes, "he had been told the famous maxim of American justice, that it was better that a hundred guilty men go free than that one innocent man be punished. Struck almost dumb by the beauty of the concept, he became an ardent patriot...