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...ahead and do it." In contrast to the reception he got in '92, Johnson has been showered with support this time around. "It made me feel really good getting all those letters and telegrams from guys that you know. [Former Laker coach] Pat Riley called me and woke me up, and he was so happy. He was the guy who was telling me all along that I shouldn't have stopped...
...woke up on Wednesday or Thursday--I can't remember which, it seems all a blur to me now--and it was 55 degrees outside. The sun blazed down upon the Quad for two beautifully warm days. The god's nose dripped and its coiffe sagged. It became Elvis again, then Lincoln in old age. On Friday it was an eight foot tall, five foot wide stump. By the weekend the putrid, freezer-burned grass emerged and all that was left of that magnificient thing was a perfectly circular patch of snow...
...three American servicemen accused of raping a 12-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl, told a packed Japanese courtroom that U.S. military investigators coerced him into confessing to the crime. Harp, a 21-year-old Marine, testified at the Naha District Court that investigators from the Naval Criminal Investigative Services woke him at four in the morning two days after the incident. Harp said he told the investigators what happened, but they asked him to "go in another direction" and say what the "Japanese would like to hear." When the trial opened November 7, Harp and another Marine, Kendrick Ledet, acknowledged that...
...very few of us believed that in our life we'd see a real possibility of peace. It started with President Sadat of Egypt. Allow me to say that I don't believe President Sadat--or any Arab leader with whom we have been engaged in peace--woke up one morning and discovered the justice of the right of the Zionist movement to establish a Jewish state. He came to the conclusion after trying wars, violence, boycott. I believe President Sadat realized that he could never get back the Sinai by force. There was no altruistic or philosophic change...
...then he was reminded that in Bosnia, happy endings no longer seem to take place. "For three years there has been nothing here but war and death," he said, calling to mind an especially painful memory--the recollection of a little girl who was hit by a sniper, then woke up in the middle of her operation and asked Begovic to "tell Mummy I love her." And with that, she died...