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Lenore M. Schloming '59 inherited a nine-unit apartment building on Inman Street from her father in 1984. When she and her family tried to move into the building in 1989, they were stymied by rent control regulations instituted to protect her tenants...
...Israeli embassy in Washington, U.N. ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister and Knesset member. To make the 47-year-old candidate appear more statesmanlike, Likud ads place him in a wood-paneled, Oval Office-like setting. Playing off Netanyahu's military stint as a commander in an elite special-forces unit, the Likud zeroes in on his seriousness about security. "Many of you are afraid to get on a bus," he tells the viewers, referring to repeated Palestinian suicide attacks. "I'm not prepared to live that...
...first pocket, 120 yds. south of the base, was struck almost exclusively by "impact-fuzed" shells, which explode when they hit the ground. These rounds, which are most effective at destroying equipment and munitions, landed close to where Hizballah had been firing a mortar at a nearby Israeli ground unit. The second area, located in the U.N. base itself, was hit mainly by "proximity-fuzed" shells, which are designed to detonate above the ground so as to widen the radius of impact. The use of that ordnance, which is especially effective at killing and maiming, explains why an exact count...
...broaden its appeal. "What we want to do is bring some new people into the tent on Sunday mornings," he says. Fox has also beefed up its political coverage, hiring Emily Rooney, former executive producer of ABC's World News Tonight, to run a New York-based political unit with 50 staff members. They supplied stations with daily stories during the early primaries, and will cover both political conventions this summer. Local news directors, meanwhile, praise Fox for its work on such stories as the arrest of the Unabomber suspect...
...World Cup in Atlanta with the top ranking and a chance to show their competitors from Italy, Germany and Romania that Americans will be medal contenders at the Olympics. What they left with, though, was a disappointing early-round defeat. "Our team wasn't really performing as a unit," said Ann Marsh, the No. 1 American. But, she adds, "by the Olympics we'll be able to pull it all together...