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...shouldn't be dead," she says, sitting in her living room the day after his funeral. There is a white bucket in the corner with a live frog he caught a few weeks ago. "He liked to fish," she says. "People think he was a monster, but he was nice to me." She says she saw him regularly; he called her Reen instead of Mom, and, she admits, "he was always blaming me" for his problems. "They could have saved him and rehabilitated him," she insists. "When he started taking cars, they should have put him away then and given...
...garbage drop that has been left open, with twine flapping loose; someone had apparently tied a gun inside but hastily wrenched it loose. Inside apartments, the officer relates, he has found cocaine in a container of Comet cleanser, guns hidden inside toilets and, once, under water in a mop bucket. And that was when gang members agreed to let him in, thinking they had hidden drugs and firearms so cleverly that Ghost would pronounce their quarters clean. Imagine what he might find if he could just bust into any apartment he wanted...
...north in Beijing, China too is on a capitalist splurge. Every block has its own office tower and luxury hotel under construction, and everybody is an entrepreneur. On a visit with American journalists to the Great Wall, where you can now get a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, two middle-aged former Marxists share their experiences of trying to make it big in the new China. One is marketing a spray said to kill hiv, the virus that causes aids. The other is trying to develop a Buddhism theme park...
...Crimson Sports Grille. It's also what you'll pay Pizza Ring some evening when you and your suite-mates decide you can't live without the Super Price Blaster Special, or what you'll shell out for a ticket to a movie at Loews and a large bucket of buttered popcorn...
They gathered last week outside supermarkets and shopping malls in Chicago, Minneapolis, Washington and other U.S. cities, carrying signs and posing for TV cameras in goofy-looking cow suits. A young woman in Manhattan dumped a bucket of milk onto a frozen sidewalk. A man in Madison, Wisconsin, dragged white plastic cartons stamped with the skull and crossbones up the steps of the state capitol. Two dozen demonstrators marched in front of Atlanta's Toco Hills shopping center with a banner that read stop the "frankenfood" -- save the cows...