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...guillotine by an intelligence agency and given a new life as an assassin. In The Professional, set in New York City, his subject is a 12-year-old named Mathilda (Natalie Portman), the only member of her family to survive a criminal massacre. She turns to a neighbor for succor. Leon (Jean Reno) is an inarticulate fellow. He drinks milk by the gallon, tenderly cares for a plant that is his only friend and likes old Gene Kelly movies. He is devoted to his work as a "cleaner," a Mob hit man of rare talent...
...substantial expansion of NATO's military role in the war. On Friday NATO issued a new ultimatum: the Serbs must stop firing on the city immediately, and they had until Saturday night to pull back their troops and weapons 1.9 miles and let in U.N. humanitarian teams to succor Gorazde's sick, wounded and starving. If the Serbs refused, NATO planes would bomb and strafe any Serb targets, including ammunition dumps and fuel depots as well as weapons, within a 12.5-mile perimeter. That extended to Gorazde and the five other havens the concepts of an ultimatum and an exclusion...
...treated to the panoply of psychiatric do-gooding. So are compulsive gamblers, foot fetishists and people who still like Meat Loaf. Cigarette smokers are virtually the only addicts who can't count on federal help or sympathy. If only they were hooked on booze, say, they could receive official succor for crimes even worse than fouling the lungs of themselves and their loved ones. We don't know of one husband who battered his wife because he'd smoked too much that night. We haven't heard of any fatal car crashes caused by a driver whose...
...Muslims eager for American intervention, might shoot down a cargo plane, triggering a military response. One U.S. congressional staff member also draws a parallel to air drops of supplies to Iraqi Kurds in 1991; they proved ineffective, and the U.S. and allies had to send in ground troops to succor the Kurds. Clinton stoutly insists that the operation will be strictly temporary and that "it would be a great mistake to read this . . . as some initial foray toward a wider military role." Let's hope. (See related story on page...
...only then, after five days of heavy-handed mistreatment, that the Iceman was given professional succor. Arriving at the morgue, Konrad Spindler, head of Innsbruck's Institute for Prehistory, was stunned, immediately realizing the significance of the shriveled body. "I thought this was perhaps what my colleague Howard Carter experienced when he opened the tomb of Tutankhamen and gazed into the face of the Pharaoh...