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...Fifteen minutes later, facing an unknown future with just a pink plastic basket holding a few clothes and a bottle of shampoo, Lek starts to cry. Suddenly sensing a need to do everything properly, she runs into the bar, kneels in front of Mama San and begins to bow and chant, a good Buddhist girl in smudged makeup giving thanks for her freedom. Mama San laughs, flattered by the display of supplication. She isn't worried about finding replacements. "Their mothers or the middlemen bring them to me," she says. "There are always fresh ones...
...Monadnock Festival Orchestra, under the direction of James Bolle, gave a vigorous and virtuosic performance. The rhythmic difficulty of the work was most visible through concertmaster Ole Bohn’s arm and bow gestures before entrances. An enthusiastic audience greeted the work with a standing ovation, which Carter acknowledged from the stage...
...Republican White House, which received the vast majority of the Enron money, struck an unbothered pose, relieved that neither Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill nor Commerce Secretary Don Evans had lifted a finger when Enron came calling for help last fall. Still, the Bush team made one tiny bow to the explosive potential of the Enron scandal, hinting for the first time that it might fork over the details of Vice President Cheney's closed-door meetings with energy-industry officials last spring if a congressional committee requested them. Bush spokesman Dan Bartlett predicted that those papers, if released, would...
...would be wrong to say there was nothing good in the Church of England," says Conservative M.P. Ann Widdecombe, a defector to the Catholics. "But it is in a mess, it needs extremely strong leadership . . . someone who will not bow to every bit of pressure . . . with a very clear view of what he believes the church needs." In other words, a miracle worker...
...society might be larger than people realize?and could yawn even wider if the Malay community as a whole is blamed for its extremists. "This will be a test of the strength of the fabric of our society," is the stark assessment of Singapore's National Development Minister, Mah Bow Tan. The 13 men might have been nabbed before they could set off any bombs?but they have thrown a big scare into their small, island nation...