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...Yawd Serk says the U.W.S.A. want to crush the S.S.A. and secure new smuggling routes. Among those Wa indicted by the U.S. Justice Department is ethnic Chinese druglord Wei Hseuh-kang, who leads the U.W.S.A. troops now ranged against the S.S.A. The U.S. is offering a $2 million reward for information leading to Wei's capture. Yawd Serk denies old allegations that his own army is involved in the drug trade, and says the S.S.A. is funded by taxing goods such as logs and livestock and by donations from Shan exiles overseas. "Our door is open for anyone to come...
...transforming. Marianne's stolid features crack into a swooning smile. Armed with subway schedules and candy bars and tarted up in a dress that must have come from Friedrich's of Heidelberg, she prowls the underground for her erotic prey. Will she find her slim swain? And then crush him under the weight of a lonely woman's first obsession? Or does she have some darker fantasy to realize? Is she the Bernhard Goetz of love...
Felipe had developed a crush on Donna Ashlock, 14, a freckle-faced student who worked as a waitress at the Tiger's Den Drive-in. "He loved to be around her," recalled one of Donna's friends. Last summer Felipe dated her, just once. Shortly before Christmas, he learned that Donna had an enlarged heart and was not expected to live more than two months. Felipe too had a health problem: he suffered from severe headaches. He told his mother, "If I die, give my heart to my girlfriend." When a blood vessel ruptured in Felipe's brain, killing...
...many parents consider un-Islamic. "What we're up against in movies, television and music," she says, "is profanity, sex and violence. The whole teenage phenomenon in the U.S. is one of personal power - claiming their own voice, their own soul, their own spirit. We don't want to crush that. We want to guide...
...wedding will take place in late April next year in Austin, Texas. In the meantime, Ms. Cowman plans to pursue research in a psychology laboratory, while Mr. Schetter continues his four-year term in the Navy. “I still feel lucky and I still have a huge crush on him,” Ms. Cowman says. —A.E.L...