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...wound up almost by serendipity working for the Nixon administration as assistant to head of the speechwriting shop...
...sent out a message: Brutality will not be tolerated, it will be prosecuted, and there will be convictions. Moreover, the police's blue wall of silence can be broken.? On the political front, the convictions will take the edge off an issue that could have been used to seriously wound Mayor Giuliani?s expected candidacy for the U.S. Senate. ?Although it is never great for a mayor to have such brutality go on in his police force,? says Cohen, ?the convictions will back Giuliani?s contention that the system worked...
...seeing five different doctors, and it was overkill," says Nancy. "At one point, I was taking 15 pills in the morning and 15 in the evening. I wound up burying my medication in the backyard. I didn't want to take it anymore." Then Nancy was tested for allergies, a process that required her to be medication free. "It was like the sky was blue again," says Nancy, who at 18 is still off drugs but sees a counselor occasionally. "The colors came back. It was a total change from the medication stupor. Everything wasn't peachy...
...security man. After its humiliation over the impeachment, the Duma may decide to save face by rejecting Stepashin. But it may be hard for them to summon up the organization and courage to turn Stepashin down. Parliamentary leaders like communist leader Gennadi Zyuganov sounded winded after the impeachment debate wound down, exhausted by Yeltsin's apparent political immortality...
...decades never fully realize that they are gay. Real guys aren't gay, because, sex aside, they don't know how to be gay. A story called The Half-Skinned Steer is as grim as its title, and it begins, "In the long unfurling of his life, from tight-wound kid hustler in a wool suit riding the train out of Cheyenne to geriatric limper in this spooled-out year, Mero had kicked down thoughts of the place where he began, a so-called ranch on strange ground at the south hinge of the Big Horns...