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...market is set up between alleys surrounding decrepit apartment buildings. Elderly Vietnamese women sit frying pancakes while others skin fresh fish. Cuts of meat hang in front of tailors mending pants and enormous bags of rice prop up the occasional war victim without legs. It was here, in 1969, where my mom was sewing and selling dresses with one of her sisters. Amidst cackling chickens and radio reports about the war, my father stumbled into the market. Ma must have been beautiful to attract his attention. After all, he came looking for a wedding dress for his fianc?...
...been embroiled in allegations of monkey business once again. Entrepreneurs like Yang?bold, flamboyant and aggressive?are heralded as the face of China's capitalist future, and fledgling private companies are viewed hopefully as a wellspring of growth and an engine of job creation to replace the country's decrepit state-owned enterprises. But they are also the product of a rapidly changing economy in which state control left over from the days of hard-line communism mingles with freewheeling capitalism?an environment where cheating is not only possible but is seemingly essential. And, since Chinese corporate dealings are often...
...week, it basically concluded that Iraq is responsible for the drowning of two U.S. sailors in the Persian Gulf late last year, even though the men were not properly trained for the mission. Benjamin Johnson, 21, of Rochester, N.Y., and Vincent Parker, 38, of Preston, Miss., died when the decrepit ship they were guarding, which had been seized by the Navy for smuggling Iraqi oil, went down during a violent storm. The sailors were part of a decade-long effort by the Navy to stop ships it suspects are carrying Iraqi oil in violation of the U.N. ban on such...
...Lowell House, there are so many old, decrepit wheels and abandoned, rusty bikes around in addition to the regular in-use bikes that it’s absolutely impossible to find any space,” DeMarco says...
...exile of a Gstaad hotel. The French legal system finally put him in jail; now it has sprung him after he served barely a third of his 10-year sentence. Medical experts solicited by his lawyers said age and illness had left the 92-year-old "bedridden" and decrepit, but Papon exited prison without assistance and grinned as he climbed into a waiting car. Denunciations of the ruling were immediate, and the Justice Ministry has promised an appeal - though it's unlikely to succeed since the ruling is in line with the new law. Not only does Papon's release...