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...possibly a murderer and a fixer of ball games. But if he did not want all that written down for posterity, he did not otherwise deny who and what he was. He flaunted his nature in the same way he flaunted his talent on the playing field -- with vicious abandon. His only virtue was his total lack of hypocrisy. His isolation when the cheering stopped was the price he proudly paid for greatness, and he would mouth no pieties to assuage his loneliness...
...Bosnian war is one of Serb aggressors and Bosnian Muslim victims. Each time the Serbs advance, some in Congress clamor for an aggressive U.S. response. However, to the British and French governments providing the bulk of the U.N. forces, all factions in the country are responsible for the vicious civil war. A senior U.N. observer in Sarajevo says Rose is not exactly pro-Serb but may be anti-Bosnian. "Rose's interest is in keeping everything quiet, in preserving the status quo," he says...
...hearings on whether cigarette companies were manipulating the nicotine level of their product. The new head will be Thomas Bliley Jr. of the tobacco state of Virginia, who thinks cigarette regulation has gone quite far enough already. "Carlos is too kind a man to get into the kind of vicious fights that will occur over issues before those committees," explains Gingrich spokesman Tony Blankley. More to the point: the only legislation Moorehead has successfully launched in recent years is a resolution declaring Snow White Week...
Anyone who shuddered through Jurassic Park would never use the words motherly or nurturing to describe the movie's prehistoric villains -- especially not the vicious velociraptors and Tyrannosaurus rex that slashed their way across the screen. But those beasts may have had a softer side that moviegoers never...
...cents." Expect Republicans to pursue a Reaganite agenda through the decade, with Speaker Gingrich aggressively pushing his Contract for America.TIME political writerLaurence I. Barrettsays the "election comes as close as we've come to a realigning election." The next few days will have a conciliatory tone -- however, expect vicious, bloody fights after Congress gets down to business, he says. "After we get through this interlude, we'll see a lot of gridlock on any real initiatives," he says. The reason? While the GOP cleaned up, it didn't get enough seats to override a handy little thing called a presidential...