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...touch her breast to feel the implant. I cannot figure out if this is an intimate form of bonding or just a Vegas handshake. The new Vegas has upped not only the sex but also the violence. Boxing has been outdrawn by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (U.F.C.), a chain-link-caged, rule-free (unless you count "no biting, no eye-gouging") contest so bloody it has been decried by the American Medical Association, banned by New York and dropped by pay-per-view cable. At a bout last month, spectators included Cindy Crawford and basketball player Shaquille O'Neal...
...last year. The hostages then become commodities in a deadly human trade that links street gangs to local mafias to insurgents like Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaeda--linked jihadi thought to be behind many of the recent terrorist attacks in Iraq. Victims are sold up the chain, and each handler scores thousands of dollars, money used to finance gun running, drug smuggling and the insurgency. There are indications that Rifat may have been caught up in such a chain...
...Latin America for centuries, but as the number of Latinos in the U.S. has grown (there are currently more than 35 million), such celebrations have become more commercial and more mainstream. Wal-Mart now stocks budget quinceanera gowns in 200 stores in 30 states, and the David's Bridal chain has dresses made exclusively for the market. Royal Caribbean offers seven-day quinceanera cruises out of Miami (at $850 to $1,200 a head), which are booked solid into next year. This fall the company will offer cruises from Orlando, Fla., and Bayonne...
...wishes to hold itself up as the light of freedom and civil rights, it must maintain moral principles in all situations. Punishment of the soldiers directly involved in the Abu Ghraib abuse is pure hypocrisy if we do not also bring to justice everyone in the military chain of command, as high up as necessary. The U.S.'s standing in the world community requires this. MICHAELENE PENDLETON Moab, Utah...
...wishes to hold itself up as the light of freedom and civil rights, it must maintain moral principles in all situations. Punishment of the soldiers directly involved in the Abu Ghraib abuse is pure hypocrisy if we do not also bring to justice everyone in the military chain of command, as high up as necessary. The U.S.'s standing in the world community requires this. Michaelene Pendleton Moab, Utah, U.S. Parting with Pounds After reading Josh Tyrangiel's essay "Getting Pounded," about the high cost of living in London [June 28], I couldn't help running around my office telling...