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...Wednesday, the University joined in the commemoration of a 1745 raid on the French fort at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia by returning a two-foot, wrought-iron cross seized at the raid...
...after protesters decorated the wrought-iron fence spikes in front of the White House with scores of surgical gloves, President Clinton apologized to gay and lesbian elected officials "for the inappropriate and insensitive treatment several of the participants were subjected to at the entrance gate of the White House." At a White House meeting last week, some Secret Service agents wore rubber gloves when greeting the officials. Clinton personally assured the group that Secret Service Director Eljay Bowron "is taking steps to ensure that it will not happen again...
...world. Teer still has that same lost expression today, but added to it is a tinge of fear. Last February he was abducted from in front of his home, held blindfolded for 24 hours and then severely beaten. His abductors thrust Teer's legs through the pickets of a wrought-iron fence to immobilize them and then proceeded to batter his limbs with steel pipes. When the ambulance arrived 20 minutes later, he was covered with blood. His left leg was broken in four places. His right leg, the shinbone sticking through the skin, was so swollen that the bars...
...Agassiz production of A Streetcar Named Desire bravely seeks to resurrect Tenessee Williams' play from its status as a silver screen sacred cow. The production is buoyed by a strong cast and well-wrought set, but lacks the direction to challenge Elia Kazan's 1951 interpretation or reclaim it for a modern audience...
...Clinton still hadn't seen a television. He listened as Ciller insisted that Turkey's attack on Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq was a retaliation against terrorism. Her words were eerily resonant. When the meeting ended, the President finally had a long look at what terrorism had wrought in the middle of America. The images of children being pulled from the rubble made him "beyond angry," as his communications director Mark Gearan put it. Clinton's first reaction, he later told a top aide, was a desire to "put my fist through the television...