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Last Friday the Ramseys flew back to Colorado amid spreading press reports that their daughter's body bore signs of sexual abuse. The Denver Post reported that the ransom note was written on paper from a pad already in the Ramsey home. During a news conference on the same afternoon, Leslie Aaholm and Boulder mayor Leslie Durgin said the Ramseys would be interviewed by arrangement with their attorneys within a few days. The officials reiterated the assurance that Boulder parents need not fear for their children and defended the police department's taciturn refusal to compromise the investigation by disclosing...
...question is whether either man can control his own partisans in the House, like Democratic whip David Bonior or Republican Dan Burton, chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, which will look into just about everything labeled Bill and Hillary. If Democrats insist on a full-bore pursuit of Gingrich, Republicans will seek the blood of the Clintons later this year or next. Washington is not so different from ancient Rome. It may talk a lot about ethics, but revenge is the virtue it understands best...
When Dana Sandarusi began opening the mail in his newspaper office at 9:15 last Thursday morning, something about one of the letters struck him as a bit strange. The envelope, which bore several Egyptian stamps and was postmarked from Alexandria on Dec. 21, ostensibly contained a holiday greeting of some kind. But unlike most Christmas cards, the envelope seemed oddly "heavy and kind of bumpy." So instead of tearing the packet open directly, Sandarusi, 34, laid it down on his desk, inserted a pair of scissors beneath the flap and carefully snipped across the top. Inside, he spotted...
...Moscow. For 24 hours, the rebels besieged Nalchik, leaving terrified inhabitants with nothing but wildly inaccurate reports from the official media to explain what was going on. By the time local security forces and reinforcements from neighboring republics regained control, the city of 250,000 bore all the grim scars of urban warfare: bodies sprawled on sidewalks, in back alleys and outside apartment blocks and official buildings. Kids roamed the streets collecting shell casings. "We never thought this would happen here," says Anastasia Zaitseva, whose workplace, a hotel opposite the Federal Security Service (fsb) headquarters, was on the front line...
...various reasons--he says his parents ridiculed his desire to pursue acting instead of football--but being gay didn't help. And while Marcel-Keyes says many of her problems have "nothing to do with my sexuality," she has struggled with self-mutilation--at the retreat, her arms bore scars from shoulder to wrist...