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Reno is pure oxygen in a city with thin air, and she has gone to its head. Senators say she is Clinton's most impressive Cabinet member by far; the New York Times called her "a prized asset." When fans surround the table where she's eating dinner with Barbra Streisand, it is Reno's autograph they want. Jay Leno called personally, hoping to get her on the show. He offered to move the taping to any time convenient...
SOMETIME LAST MONDAY afternoon, Francois Nassau rested his distended belly on the floor of his father's hovel, curled one thin arm under his head, and quietly died. So silent was the boy's passing that his mother did not realize he was gone until she tried to rouse him. Francois was nine years...
After the venture failed, those who made their way back to Petit-Trou found a very different village from the one they left. Before the expedition the town was tense, fearful, expectant. Today it is hollow and listless, its surviving residents thin with despair. In the past three months no mail has been delivered and no trucks have arrived with supplies. There are no stores, no cars, no doctors. There are no books in the schools, which doesn't matter because most parents can no longer afford to send their children. The hospital has ceased to function, and the only...
...involved parcels that exploded on college campuses, among them Northwestern and Vanderbilt. The last attack prior to this week, in Salt Lake City, Utah, in February 1987, may have sent the bomber underground after a witness described a man with reddish-blond hair, a thin mustache and ruddy complexion dropping off a burlap bag that later exploded outside a computer company...
...short, thin man carrying a cardboard box of uncooked buns races away from East Broadway in Manhattan's Chinatown. His unkempt black hair flies wildly as he darts onto Henry Street, then turns, looking anxiously behind him. When he sees a policeman continue up the street, he drops the box and takes a deep breath. The cop, he explains, was after the uncooked buns. The man sells nine for $2, making on average $15 a day. He doesn't have a license to sell on the street. He does not know what a license...