Word: flees
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...J.F.K.'s former press secretary has written the introduction to Gaddafi's first published work of fiction, just arrived in translation in the U.S. Cheerily titled Escape to Hell and Other Stories, Gaddafi's book mostly covers things that chafe him, including football, rock music and especially cities: "Flee from the lethargy and waste, the poison and boredom and yawning. Flee from the nightmare city," he writes. People, also, are a problem: "Your breath chases me like a rabid dog, its saliva dripping in the street of your modern city of insanity." Movie rights, apparently, are still available...
...passport. Outsiders thought they planned to race off to a country that would allow them to marry, but the boring truth was that they had gone to see Wag the Dog and get some food and beer. As romantic and manic as Mary can be, she never planned to flee with Vili. To where? And take him from his mother, the one person who has been sane and humane throughout all this...
...majority Hutu tribe, he was expected to join in the Hutu militants' three-month campaign of genocide against Tutsi and moderate Hutu. Bizimana refused and toward the end sought refuge in a hospital. When the Tutsi-majority Rwandan Patriotic Front seized power in July 1994, he chose not to flee. Both decisions nearly cost him his life. Even today, a uniformed armed guard escorts him everywhere. Bizimana has tried to come to terms with the cataclysm, but there are no easy answers. "We have to ask ourselves, What provoked people to start thinking of themselves as threatened by their neighbors...
...eventually I decided that this wasn't the best idea. As I read more, I decided I wasn't content to be proved a crook and dragged away by the law, or to flee the scene of the crime, or to die seductively. Even worse was the possibility of fading gently into the back-ground, leaving the hero to morosely slug down several fifths of whiskey and move on to his next case. I didn't want to be a prop anymore. (By this point I also had learned about the other half of a prostitute's job. Suddenly those...
Last week the Rev. JERRY FALWELL, writing in USA Today, counseled Bill Clinton to resign or ask public forgiveness. His grounds: Scripture bids the leader, "Flee from all appearances of evil," and standards are "immensely higher for those who invoke the name of Christ, as Bill Clinton does." Falwell, however, may have a first-stone problem. In the Web magazine Salon, reporter MURRAY WAAS writes that a group called Citizens for Honest Government paid more than $200,000 to people who accused Clinton of such crimes as aiding an Arkansas cocaine ring. CHG folded those allegations, and worse, into...