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However, you can sentence only those you catch. By the Malibu fire's third day, Ablott and his crew, analyzing burn and wind patterns, had located the fire's ground zero within 4 ft. and ascertained that its author had not used an accelerant, like gasoline. But their best lead -- several witnesses had seen two men in a blue pickup truck racing away from ground zero -- turned out to be a bust. By Thursday Ablott's team had interviewed the men, who could prove they not only had alerted neighbors to the fire's existence but had tried to extinguish...
...confusion, though, delivery of the draft bill marked what Budget Director Leon Panetta, borrowing a line from Winston Churchill, called "the end of the beginning" in the great national-health- care debate. For months that debate has focused on ideas, generalities, trial balloons, leaked outlines. Now it can zero in on the specifications of an actual draft bill. Not necessarily one bearing much resemblance to what Congress may eventually pass, however. Said Senate Republican leader Robert Dole: "I'm willing to wager that the final product will be considerably different from any bill that has been proposed to date" -- including...
...Congress approved the Clinton proposal to tax higher-income retirees on 85% of their Social Security benefits. Tsongas claims to have given his deficit-slashing speech 70 times this year to diverse audiences without resistance. "There is no doubt in my mind that the country would rally to a zero-deficit banner," he says...
Some readers have zero tolerance for the genre of seagoing adventures. To such landlubbers, nautical language all sounds distressingly like shiver-me- mizzenmast or belay-the-taffrail or somesuch, and they quickly jump ship in search of books written in more accessible prose. Too bad for them, because they have therefore missed the high-sailing novels of Patrick O'Brian...
After that, the Crimson had no chance, down two games to zero...