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...instant. We knew but did not want to believe. "What was that?" he asked. Doug Kiker, now of NBC, then a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, was typing on his lap. He paused. Kennedy's limousine had turned the corner beneath a boxy, ugly building and sunk out of sight. The pigeons -- the famous pigeons of death -- were rising and swooping under the trees...
...support of military establishments that continue to exert considerable influence in civilian affairs. Death squads with links to the military still use guns to silence critics, making a mockery of the precepts of democratic dialogue and respect for human rights. And regionwide, the basic standard of living has sunk to the levels of the early 1970s...
...excuse is this: for years, I have been an Ohio State fan. With the Buckeyes sunk in the mud of a mediocre year, I have lost my passionate interest in the college game. I retain a certain intellectual curiosity. But the intellect, as I demonstrated Wednesday, is faulty, capable of making major blunders. The heart is perfect...
...Crimson (1-3 Ivy, 1-5 overall) will face Brown (0-3-1 Ivy, 0-5-1) in what should have been a stop on the road to a repeat Ivy championship. Instead, this game is shaping up as a test of just how far the Crimson has sunk. Will Harvard snap out of its doldrums long enough to bring down Brown...
...knows when the FDIC's hemorrhaging will stop. Almost 1,500, or roughly 11%, of the 13,700 commercial banks in the U.S. are still on the agency's list of troubled institutions. Many of these banks are already doomed, and hundreds of others could be sunk by a continued rise in interest rates, which means they would have to pay more to depositors...