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...better-connected pupils consistently won the grants. One day, the Communist Youth League nominated one of her students for an award for helping save an orphan, but withdrew his name when it learned of his faith. School officials blamed Goodspeed and asked her to leave. "I don't collect converts," she explains, "but I try to help people see that going to church isn't for the old and the weird...
...regime - and, indeed, was in a consortium of companies making payments to survivors and victims' families - Black says that the American parent was fully aware of the use to which the technology was put. And after the Germans surrendered, Black says, IBM's U.S. office was quick to collect profits made during the war by the subsidiary, called Dehomag...
...raise the vein. Tears pour unnoticed from her mother's eyes as she watches the needle tap-tap at her daughter's temple. Each time the whimpering child lifts a wan hand to brush away the pain, her mother gently lowers it. Drop by drop, the nurses manage to collect 1 cc of blood in five minutes...
...much, really. He could use his body language to demonstrate that he's on Kuchma's side, but Putin is not very good at that. The Russians may be poking around for a way to give him support, hoping to collect on the debt later. The Russian media, even those outlets close to the Kremlin, have signaled pretty clearly that Putin is going to try and get all the leverage he can out of Kuchma's troubles. But they haven't laid out what he can do, probably because the Russians themselves don't really know what they...
...level up from buyers like Samnang are the brokers who collect large orders from buyers and arrange for the gun shipments. Chay, a broker in his early 30s, seems nervous when we meet just after dawn in the urine-redolent upper room of a bar 15 minutes outside Bangkok. A heavily built Thai, Chay fidgets a lot, looking down at his hands. His discomfort may be caused by his boss who is sitting at another table, an obese, balding man in his 50s who scowls behind thick, gold-rimmed glasses and cigar smoke...