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Listening to Conyers' attack, the 54-year-old, 6-ft. 2-in. Reno thrust out her jaw and glared. Then, her voice quavering, she replied, "I haven't tried to rationalize the death of children, Congressman. I feel more strongly about it than you will ever know. But I have neither tried to rationalize the death of four ((Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms)) agents, and I will not walk away from a compound where ATF agents had been killed by people who knew they were agents and leave them unsurrounded." Then she added, "Most of all, Congressman, I will...
ASSEMBLING CALIFORNIA IS THE fourth and final volume of John McPhee's "Annals of the Former World" series, his reports on the new geology that began running in the New Yorker back in the Shawnian Era. That was before the Albion Shift uplifted Tina Brown from London and thrust her toward Manhattan, where she eventually docked as the magazine's new editor...
...least some programming that serves the "educational and informational needs" of children. The trick, of course, is figuring out what constitutes educational fare. A number of stations tried to satisfy the rules by putting a fresh coat of public-service paint on rusty old entertainment shows. Among the programs thrust under the education rubric, according to a study by the Washington-based Center for Media Education, were Super Mario Brothers (cited for demonstrating the importance of "self-confidence"), The Jetsons (for teaching kids what life might be like in the 21st century) and Leave It to Beaver (for promoting...
...after just one week, the coalition has thrust itself to the forefront of campus debate, and--with nine minority student groups already enlisted and more smaller organizations soon to join--its momentum is growing...
Some have greatness thrust upon them. Others thrust themselves into great parties. Nobody crashes society bashes like New York nobody Richard Osterweil, a starving artist and coat checker featured in the recent film Painting the Town. As for future infiltrations, look for his face...