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There was a flurry of media excitement last week when a tip suggested Chandra Levy's body was buried in Fort Lee, Va. The lead turned out to be bogus. For Chandra's mother Susan, it was an especially hard episode. "I'm not holding up very well," she tells TIME. "It's been a very rough week." Levy says both she and her husband Robert take sleeping pills and tranquilizers at night. "I'm often sick to my stomach. It's sheer terror." Still, Levy won't call for Gary Condit to quit. "Let the people decide for themselves...
...year. He's got English-language books, a Bible and American-style meals, but no cigarettes, TV or air-conditioning. He isn't allowed to speak or write to friends and family. His mother Arlene Jordan, who works in the engineering services department at the Army's Fort Eustis in Hampton, Virginia, says she used to chat with her son every week by phone, but hasn't communicated with him since his arrest. "Let's just say he is very far away from home," she tells TIME. Woodland can talk with his lawyers, two Japanese and one American. The American...
...FORT BRAGG: PW gives a starred, boxed review, its highest accolade, to "Ava's Man" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg. "Following up his bestselling memoir, 'All Over But the Shoutin', Bragg again creates a soulful, poignant portrait of working-class Southern life by looking deep into his own family history. This new volume recounts the life of his maternal grandfather, Charlie Bundrum, who died in 1958, one year before Rick was born...His investigations in the Appalachian foothills along the Georgia-Alabama border turn up a beloved, larger-than-life rambler who inspired backwoods legend among contemporaries, undying...
...talking about Fort Knox here. Some of these codes could be cracked by a computer-savvy seven-year-old. That's okay, though, because Big Publishing has the might of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act behind it. This beauty of a pro-business statute - which also comforts the comfortable in the music and movie industries - makes it not only an offense to circumvent any security surrounding copyrighted material, but even to invent any tools that circumvent such security. This is a little like prosecuting Xerox for coming up with the photocopier. Your Honor, someone might use that thing to copy...
...toes. We sauntered down to the water, our fair figures hardly discernable from the surrounding sands. Splashing about in the ocean, I did my best to keep my body hidden beneath the surface. Later, we adjourned to the shore, weary from our frolicking. Like children building a fort in the family den, we huddled beneath a damp towel and looked out at the Pamela Andersons and David Hasselhoffs of the world. Like vampires, we sucked our Pepsi contentedly from our lair and cautiously applied a second layer of Coppertone. I felt compelled to shout out something in a British accent...