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...Philippine officials, was the name of a member, now dead, of the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group. Two other Abu Sayyaf operators have used Alvarado's name to carry out previous attacks, according to Philippine intelligence officers. This Alvarado, whose real name was Redondo Cain Dellosa, hauled on board a cardboard box containing a television set. The TV, according to investigators, was packed with 3.6 kg of TNT. Making his way to the cheapest passenger section in the bowels of the ship, Dellosa carefully placed the box on his seat and slipped away just before the ferry cast off. An hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return of Abu Sayyaf | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

GREENE DRAGON The week before the convention, this street-theater group will re-create Paul Revere's Ride, pedaling down Lexington Avenue on bicycles outfitted with cardboard horse heads, shouting, "The Republicans are coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Street Theater For The G.O.P. | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

...challenge Burrough faces in writing about people like Nelson and Kelly is that they've gone thin and stiff with age. "After decades spent in the washing machine of popular culture," Burrough writes, "their stories have been bled of all reality." Burrough strips the comic-book glamour off those cardboard villains and gives them back their grit and power to shock. We learn that Nelson was a tiny blond sociopath whose viciousness frightened even his pals. "Pretty Boy" Floyd--Charley to his friends--was a Dust Bowl farm boy. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow come off as greedy, murderous children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crimes and Misdemeanors | 7/19/2004 | See Source »

...legal work with the duties she cared about most: attending PTA meetings, shuttling the kids to soccer games and making their Halloween costumes. One year, when Wade and his friends wanted to dress as parts of a golf course, she figured out how to make real grass grow on cardboard. The idyll collapsed in April 1996, when Wade, 16, died in a freak car accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elizabeth Edwards: The Other Lawyer At Home | 7/19/2004 | See Source »

...those cardboard boxes probably contain memories of a very different beginning, when she arrived at Harvard and PBH more than eight years...

Author: By Katharine A. Kaplan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eight Years Later, Smooth Sailing for Dean Kidd | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

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