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...tiny fraction of that throng gathered last Thursday night outside the Belgrade prison where Milosevic had been held since April, chanting "Slobo, Slobo, we will never abandon you." Milosevic's wife Mira and his daughter-in-law Milica Gajic were there, too, waiting silently in a green...
...while his Thai opponent, fighting the referee's restraint, presses to finish him off. Chinaka's eyes are frosted and bloody from three fresh cuts on his right brow. Giving up, he feels his way to the ropes and, as he is pulled into the cursing throng, his eyelids flicker with the approaching blackout...
...live public execution? A provocative question, and a nearly superfluous one. What we will see Monday morning will be a live public execution in all but the most literal sense. Some 1,600 journalists will be in Terre Haute, their tape recorders and cameras trained on the expected throng of demonstrators. Jane Clayson will be there; Katie Couric and Charles Gibson will be in Oklahoma City, along with a contingent of reporters set to talk with victims' family members. We will know the instant McVeigh's death is declared. And already, we are seeing and hearing his crime and victims...
...Harvard student body towards athletics. I only did so because I knew that hockey once served to unite the campus and could do so once again. As great as Harvard's 7-4 win over Yale in the playoffs this year was, the truly beautiful sight was the throng of students erupting in sheer elation over the team's feat...
...emblematic of a fresh direction in spying. Private companies and individuals were behind more than half the incidents of industrial espionage in 1999, the most recent year for which statistics are available from the National Counterintelligence Center. Chinese commercial spies--not necessarily working for their government--have joined a throng of other agents targeting American know-how, including those from such ostensible U.S. allies as Japan, Israel, France and South Korea...