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Meet Darren, a 23-year-old yacht-club manager with tousled blond hair and a cute British accent. You might call him a dream date. But then, you haven't met his main rival: Nico, 19, a bodyguard with slicked-back hair, a macho manner and a size 18 shoe. "Great lips -- fit perfectly with mine," drools one of three women who went on a date with Nico. Says another: "If he had kissed my neck, I would've lost control." For Darren, however, the postdate comments run from "He looked like he just woke up" to a grumbly...
...taking matters into their own hands may be just what they have to do, in the face of an administration reluctant to play bodyguard on a city campus...
...African National Congress with a speech encouraging blacks to seek freedom "with our boxes of matches and our necklaces" -- a reference to a grisly form of execution carried out by lighting gasoline-filled tires around the necks of suspected government collaborators. She surrounded herself with a group of young bodyguard thugs known as the Mandela United Football Team who took it upon themselves to terrorize opponents -- real or imagined -- in the black township of Soweto. Increasingly imperious, Winnie was denounced in 1989 by other black leaders for having "violated human rights . . . in the name of the struggle against apartheid...
...Salahuddin. "We realize that an independent Kurdistan is out of the question," he told TIME. "All we want is the right to till our land in peace, the right to local government, the right to speak our language and have it taught in our schools." The rebel leader's bodyguard lounged around in the pink-and-beige interior, staring out through floor-to-ceiling windows at the snowy mountains glowing pink in the sunset. For Barzani, the rapid ouster of the regime from Kurdistan was vindication for his father Mustafa, who died in exile in 1979 after his own uprising...
...interests. Frustration led to rage. In fact, Saddam's grudge against Kuwait had been festering for some time. During the war with Iran, he asked permission for his troops to make temporary use of Kuwaiti territory in preparation for battle. Kuwait refused. Saddam's reaction, reported by a former bodyguard: "They refuse? Perfect. One day, the Kuwaitis will be gnawing their knuckles...