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...agents appeared and separated the family. "We didn't even have a chance to look at each other," says Xue. The agents blindfolded Xue and drove him to a house where they interrogated him for 26 days. On March 8 they took him to Andrew, who, because of the abrupt and prolonged break, did not recognize him at first. "He was looking at me, and then he figured it out. We embraced and cried...
...stakes are almost total. Never before, Wall Street yelps, have the market's fortunes been so entwined with Main Street's. Never before has the portfolio had so much hold over the wallet, and never before has so much broad-based American wealth been created and destroyed in so abrupt a lurch. The Wall Street contention is simple: These are again troubled global times, and the I-feel-rich American consumers who supported the U.S. economy through the Asian, Russian and hedge-fund tremors are on the brink of feeling very poor, and are acting accordingly...
Lawrence H. Summers, soon to be the 27th president of Harvard, received an abrupt introduction to campus politics yesterday, when about 30 students protested outside of the press conference announcing his official selection...
...this has led to an abrupt reversal of the cutbacks of the early '90s, when buyouts and attrition from crumbling morale brought down staffing at the CIA more than 20%. But since 1996, there has been a concerted recruitment effort aimed at boosting numbers. The CIA's clandestine branch, the Directorate of Operations, is now believed to have more than 5,000 employees...
They were Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward to a subculture of disenfranchised goth fanatics. But beneath the opaline makeup and behind the strong, godless front, MARILYN MANSON and ROSE MCGOWAN were hiding domestic despair. "There is great love," the couple noted in a statement announcing the abrupt end of their three-year relationship and almost two-year engagement, "but our lifestyle difference is, unfortunately, even greater." While both enjoyed displaying their iridescent rear ends at award shows, re-creating the Kennedy assassination for kicks and generally freakin' out the straights, McGowan was reportedly unhappy about her fiance's vagabond tour...