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LAST WEEK, Courtney Steel, the 17-year-old student body president of the Spence School in New York, was killed by a drunk driver...
...York, I was riding in a taxi and the driver said, "I'm from Minsk." I began asking him questions, so persistently that he asked, "You wouldn't happen to be in the KGB, would you?" I persuaded him that I wasn't, and toward the end of our talk, he suddenly asked, "Aren't you Sakharov's wife...
...arrest of Salas as a "commendable ( accomplishment on the part of our law-enforcement agencies." Salas, 38, was captured outside the Philippine General Hospital after receiving treatment for sinusitis and a goiter condition. He was being helped into a car by Josefina Cruz, his wife, and Jose Concepcion, his driver and bodyguard, when the police closed in to arrest the trio. Officials claim that Salas took part in a 1974 ambush in which five U.S. Navy officers were killed. The government last week charged him with rebellion, a crime punishable by death...
Another incident was funny. Tires do go flat by themselves occasionally, and it's hard for me to change them, so when I get a flat I flag down a truck. Any driver is happy to change a tire for three rubles. One time, the truck driver whom I flagged was surprised by my request, since he saw a strapping young man near my car. When he was finished changing my tire and I offered him a three- ruble note, he said, "Don't bother, mother, but you should teach your kid a lesson. What's the matter with...
...laughed. "Come on, Rutger," I said. "Disney? Conspiracy? Didn't you ever see The Parent Trap with Haley Mills? A charming, absolutely charming film, as were all Disney films. Sure, none of 'em were Taxi Driver or Apocalypse...