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...Brother! No, Brother!)" He didn't fire. The bodies of his mother and brother Nirajan were found outside in the garden. None of the witnesses saw their or Dipendra's own demise. Maheshwar heard the sound of a gun, perhaps a revolver, from the garden and deduced afterward it was Dipendra's suicide shot...
...afterward Shanower writes, "My purpose in 'A Thousand Ships' isn't to invent, but to tell anew, so I have done my best to base everything on existing sources." To that end he includes a bibliography, a genealogical chart, and a glossary. Even so, he admits that it still amounts to his deciding which version of the tale most suits him, and adding his own details when no others fit. Perhaps classical scholars will wince, but putting a personal spin on history couldn't be more Homeric...
Still, Patino's murder may have bolstered Mexican government resolve. Soon afterward, the Mexican army, acting on cia as well as DEA tips, arrested Ramon's buddy Higuera at one of his houses south of Tijuana as he partied drunk and naked with two Colombian women. And patience with the Arellanos may be wearing thin among the Colombian cartels, which are often led by cultured narco-dons who view their Mexican allies as sloppy and uncouth nacos, or hicks--a gang, U.S. agents say, that had to bury a DC-7 in the Baja desert six years ago because...
...with dust and disease. Dr. Gustavo Martinez, director of a private Juarez hospital, watched helplessly as the infant writhed in pain before he finally suffocated. "You don't ever forget the face of a seven-month-old who doesn't want to live anymore," he says. When Martinez went afterward to see the family, he found their one-room shanty, built of pallets and cardboard, open on all sides to the wind. Dust swirled around the empty crib in the corner. "I just leaned against the wall and thought, 'I can't compete against this,'" he said...
...When I was 12 my boss, he was 25, asked if I wanted to go drink with him. If he'd asked me to kill the mayor I would have said okay, because he was like a God to me. I went to see my friends afterward, and I was tall enough, I was good looking enough, I was smart enough, they were laughing with me, or at least I thought so, and all the attention was on me. All my insecurities vanished...