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...very tired, physically and mentally. You forget everything outside after a time. You are utterly alone. There are two of them, and they play good guy and bad guy, the bad guy slapping you and spitting on you. You wonder, 'Where does he get so much spit from?' They dig at your genitals with a boot or a stick. Sometimes they tie you to a pipe so that you cannot stand or sit or kneel and leave you that way for days...
Last week he persuaded the state legislature to follow his lead and vote for $2.8 billion in income and sales taxes. Coupled with an almost equal amount in spending cuts, the money will not only allow New Jersey to dig itself out of debt but should also provide additional state education aid to relieve homeowners of one of the most onerous property-tax rates in the U.S. Here too Florio soaked the rich: the legislature approved a plan to shift the bulk of its education assistance from the wealthiest to the poorest districts by 1995, leaving the affluent to make...
...completed two years later by military strongman Abdul Karim Kassem. When the Baathists fared no better under the new regime, Saddam was tapped by the party in 1959 to assassinate Kassem. That attempt also failed, but Saddam emerged a hero as stories circulated of how he had a companion dig a bullet from his leg with a penknife, then to Syria disguised as a Bedouin...
...everyone is prepared to dig into the B.S. program," he says. "The B.A. option serves a valuable purpose by letting people who are less certain that they want to commit themselves to the rigor of [the B.S. program] still get an outstanding education while preparing them to go on to do graduate engineering work." Brockett notes that many students who have earned the B.A. degree have gone on to attend prestigious graduate programs...
...family's saga does not end there. Not long ago, Seng received news from Cambodia about his daughters: in 1975 they had been sent to a work camp in the western province of Battambang and assigned to dig irrigation ditches. Seng Ly died of malaria and malnutrition. She was ten years old. But Theary somehow survived. Married and the mother of three small children, she was reunited last month in Phnom Penh with her brother Neang. There were tears at the reunion -- and many overdue smiles...