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...stumbled upon a headless, bullet-ridden, badly decomposed corpse. Police eventually determined that the victim's beige cotton T shirt had been made in Morocco and her pink polyester shorts purchased in San Francisco. Then they received a call from an informed source suggesting that those clothes might belong to California-born Monika Zumsteg Telling, 27, the wife of an affluent member of British high society, Michael Telling, 33. Last week police descended upon the couple's rustic Buckinghamshire hideaway and charged Telling with murder. They also found the victim's head stashed in the garage...
Everyone in China must belong to a factory, neighborhood, peasant or office danwei. The danwei controls your life. You introduce yourself on the telephone by identifying the danwei to which you belong. The neighborhood danwei assigns you to a job; then you belong to the factory danwei, which decides when you can have a baby and how large an apartment you live in. It can also transfer you to a danwei in a distant province and your wife to another. And so, up the line, to absolute control...
...homeland. Although he said "Harvard is like a second home to me." Aquino stated several times that he felt both restless and a little useless because he was so far away from the center of his concerns. "My place is in the Philippines that is where I belong," he said, adding that "while my stay here has been invaluable for the time it has given me to think and talk with others. This is not the place I can do the most good...
...suburb of New York City. With her neatly tailored beige suit, pink designer blouse and necklace of seed pearls, she has the well-scrubbed preppie look of someone who has had a safe, comfortable life. When she begins to speak, the words seem strange, as if they belong to some other person...
...line is less plausible, for one thing-Fierstein has improved it in other ways, making the two leads more human, more substantial and, finally, more interesting than they were in either the film or the play. "We're showing that marriage, commitment, family, don't have to belong to heterosexuals," he says. "We decided early on that our greatest enemy would be the tendency to hide, to avoid being honest. If a gay show is a hit and doesn't make a statement, what's the point?" Says Herman, who also wrote the music and lyrics...