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...awkward at the very beginning until someone broke the ice and asked someone to dance," she says...
Until that time, police drug busters had been focused on the flood of pot and cocaine coming across the border from Mexico. But as the ecstasy scene broke into the mainstream, the cops started to take action. Phoenix police sent in a young female undercover detective to start making buys. "We had to tell her to stop, she was getting so much," said a law-enforcement source. They were also surprised by how widespread the use of the drug was among young suburban kids. "Only 1,000 ecstasy pills were seized in all of Arizona the previous year...
...explain why her administration legally could not participate, found herself professing her own Christianity. "One atheist [Madeline Murray O'Hair] took prayer out of the schools," Lee said, but she prayed it would return. "When she said that," notes Judy Mitchell, one of the Christian athletes' faculty advisers, "it broke the ice. Everyone said, 'I can do that, 'cause I'm not going to get in trouble.'" At least 450 of Pearl River's 670 students remained, lunchless, in the sweltering...
...learned that he had penned some of the most celebrated verse to come out of World War I: he was killed in action on the Western Front a week before the Armistice. A similar fate met Alan Seeger, an American who joined the French Foreign Legion when the war broke out and was killed in France fighting Germans in 1916--shortly after writing his poem I Have a Rendezvous with Death. The verse begins, "I have a rendezvous with Death/At some disputed barricade" and ends, "And I to my pledged word am true./I shall not fail that rendezvous." Seeger...
Gone are the impossible-to-follow plot twists of the first Mission: Impossible. This is a simple story of a guy, a girl, the bad guys and a plot to wipe out humanity while making a killing in biotech stock. Scottish actor Dougray Scott, who last broke hearts in Ever After, turns up as bio-villain Sean Ambrose. Ving Rhames reprises his role as Cruise's computer sidekick, Luther Stickell, and Anthony Hopkins makes an unbilled--and deliciously despicable--appearance as Cruise's boss...