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Last year the team was the best it's been in years. It had acquired such potential phenoms as Jill Brenner, a nationally-ranked transfer student from the University of Florida; Gina Majmudar, a New Yorker so good in high school she earned a place in Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd"; and Maryla Madura, a high school standout from Florida. Putting that talent to work, the team went 10-6 and came within upset losses to Princeton and Dartmouth of qualifying for nationals and garnering the league crown...
...training, prison construction and crime prevention, the bill contained provisions for an expansion of the death penalty to cover dozens of federal crimes, a Racial Justice Act that would allow defendants to use racial statistics to challenge death sentences as discriminatory, and a ban on the sale or transfer of handguns to juveniles without parental consent. On May 5 the House separately approved a ban on the sale of 19 assault weapons by a vote of 216 to 214. The entire package then went to a conference committee to be reconciled with the Senate's own omnibus crime bill, which...
...bomb and hand it over to terrorists. "If you just spent $300 million on something," asks a State Department specialist, would you turn it over to a band of ( terrorists "or would you keep it for your own protection?" He also wonders if Iran could keep secret forever the transfer of a nuclear weapon to Islamic militants. Tehran would have to be certain it did not leave fingerprints on the deal, or the country could become the target of reprisals -- possibly nuclear. "God help the state that gave terrorists nuclear material," says the official. "The international community's response would...
...peacekeeping force of 2,500 French troops, based in southwestern Rwanda since June, prepared to hand over its mission to a U.N. contingent of Ghanaian and Ethiopian soldiers. But the pending transfer threatened to spark such a mass exodus of Hutu, fearful of the predominantly Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic + Army, that Zaire closed its border at Bukavu in an effort to prevent another Goma...
...Nussbaum called Hanson again, this time with a new idea: Isn't it true, he asked, that the RTC could transfer its civil probe of Madison into the hands of special prosecutor Fiske, who had been chosen two weeks earlier by Reno to launch the criminal inquiry into Whitewater? If so, Nussbaum told Hanson, she might want to inform Altman, still fully in charge of the Madison case, that such a transfer was possible under Fiske's charter. (Under oath, Nussbaum recalled suggesting this to Hanson, but insisted that he did so to help Altman get out of his conflict...