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...back of the bike fired a pistol through the Volga's rear window. The panic- stricken chauffeur jammed on the brakes, allowing the gunman to pump more bullets through a side window of the car. Khitrichenko was hit four times--in the head, chest, neck and wrist; less than an hour later he was pronounced dead at Lohia Hospital. His wife and the driver sustained minor injuries from flying glass...
...addiction can sneak up on you, foosball players agree. "You waste so much time at the table, you wish you could get credit for it." says Brian C. Harrington '87 Flora Chang '86 says that she slacked off on her foos time when her "academics and wrist started hurting...
Meanwhile, Kaye recovered from what Choate described as "severe tendonitis in her wrist and shoulder" to score an easy triumph yesterday...
...behavior. When, instead, they engage in amoralka (misconduct)--the most common forms being heavy drinking, philandering and, among diplomats, smuggling Western consumer goods--their peers are supposed to recall them to righteousness. The party had a series of weapons for these situations, ranging from a slap on the wrist, vygovor (a reprimand), to expulsion. But the party prefers to redeem rather than punish. The higher a transgressor's rank, moreover, the greater the tendency to cover up his misdeeds...
...wafer-thin watch that keeps perfect time for $20 at a dime store," scoffs Sig Shonholtz, who runs the Second Time Around Watch Co. in Los Angeles. "So what else is there? The only thing left is backlash. It's humanizing to have something quirky and mechanical on your wrist...