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...then there is the potential of a final insult. Just as he did in Iowa and New Hampshire, President Clinton might well swoop through the state in the final pre-primary hours, this time happily wolfing down thousands of grams of multicultural fat, as his ads proclaim: "Clinton for President--The Other Guys Just Don't Have the Stomach...
Brothers to the Rescue, or Hermanos al Rescate, was founded in 1991 by members of Miami's anti-Castro Cuban exile community as a peaceful protest group. Its technique was to fly over the Caribbean trying to spot rafts. Finding one, Brothers would swoop down close to the water and drop a flare. The orange smoke would guide the U.S. Coast Guard to the raft's position. The group saved the lives of hundreds if not thousands of Cubans who otherwise would have drowned...
After storing the probe's transmitted data in its tape recorder, Galileo will begin its tour of the Jovian system. In a route that will take it into 11 far-ranging orbits during the next 23 months, it will swoop as close as 160 miles above three of Jupiter's four major moons, Europa, Callisto and Ganymede, flying by each of them several times. On these passes--hundreds of times closer than those achieved by Voyagers 1 and 2 in 1979--it will shoot pictures and, with remote sensing instruments, analyze the chemical composition of the moons. In the course...
Interviewed recently on a beach near her getaway home in Miami, Houston, 32, projected the contradictions. As she arrived clad in a form-fitting purple dress, hand in hand with Brown--the two have reconciled after a recent separation--she seemed ready for a camera to swoop down for an adoring close-up. Yet she also flashed some feisty homegirl attitude. "People think I'm Miss Prissy Pooh-Pooh, but I'm not; I like to have fun," she says, jabbing a finger in the air. "I can get down, really freakin' dirty with you. I was born in Newark...
...Pitcher). A drawling source of humor during the first act, he digresses into a crazed murdered by the end of the second. The scene in which he visibly loses his mind particularly displays both the character's dynamic force and Pritchard's versatility as an actor in one fell swoop...