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Despite almost daily exercise, Angwin has avoided injuries. He runs at dawn to beat the Florida heat and varies his routine with swimming and cycling. "I'm as addicted to good health now as I once was addicted to unhealth," he says. "I can do anything a younger athlete can do. It just takes me longer...
...villagers in the Peusangan area, death came at dawn. Indonesian soldiers swept in from all directions, announcing their arrival with bursts of semiautomatic gunfire. Most villagers cowered in their houses. But seven young men and boys were caught in the open. A 55-year-old woman who witnessed the carnage said she saw about 15 soldiers prodding the seven villagers into line. The soldiers, she said, shot four of the men from a distance of about five meters; the remaining three began to run and were mowed down by bullets...
...Since then little was heard of Numan until he was seized at dawn by U.S. forces in Baghdad today. Numan is the highest-ranking former Iraqi official to be taken into custody by the U.S. so far and eighth on the list most wanted fugitives. He is also a man described on a US State Dept. website as rising, "from low-key provincial positions thanks to his reputed cruelty, brutal efficiency, and loyalty...
...Colors, the scaldingly funny roman a clef about Bill Clinton--Joe has emerged as one of America's premier political journalists. I'm thrilled to have him at TIME, even if he occasionally questions the wisdom of hitting the road for another round of motel rooms and crack-of-dawn pancake breakfasts. "I don't really know why I keep doing this," says Klein. "It goes against all sanity, but you really do live for the moments when politicians surprise you--and I don't mean when they screw up, because that's never a surprise. I'm talking about...
Since the dawn of civilization, aspiring minds have been writing papers that read more or less like the following...