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...home looked warm and welcoming enough to the young Branch Davidian girl. She was fascinated with the hot running water, flush toilets, heated food. The Waco compound had no such comforts. But upon passing a door leading to the basement, the youngster froze. "Do you have a whipping room down there?" she asked her new guardians. "No," answered the woman who now cared for her, "do you have one?" "Yes," said the little girl. "When they don't want everyone to hear us, they take us down there...
Ellcock was homeless himself until four years ago and recalls sleeping in unlocked cars and on heat grates in order to escape the cold. "A couple of times I almost froze, got frostbite. It was real brutal, real hard...
That is largely why Bush let Saddam's army suppress the Iraqi Kurds and drive them into the mountains along the Turkish and Iranian borders, where many starved or froze to death. It was only because the Western media publicized those horrors that the Administration belatedly came to the Kurds' rescue. Along with other members of the anti-Saddam coalition, the U.S. has established an umbrella of armed force to safeguard the Iraqi Kurds above the 36th parallel. The area is now a de facto Kurdish state. It has an army and a democratically elected parliament, and it is developing...
...town's adversities may actually have strengthened the student bonds. The farm economic crisis of the 1920s, followed by the Great Depression in the 1930s, pushed the people inward. World War II froze town development. Even after the war, Greenfield was ignored by superhighways and shopping malls. The kids manufactured their activities among themselves, mostly at high school. "We truly got to love each other," said Darlene Don Carlos Marshall...
Some companies slashed pay unilaterally. Ford CEO Harold Poling, for example, took a 6.6% pay cut last year, while Avon boss James Preston froze his salary at $610,000 and lowered his bonus 23%. IBM chairman John Akers took a 40% cut, reducing his compensation by $1.1 million, to $1.6 million. Others are revamping their pay structure. AT&T junked its stock-option plan in favor of an incentive package based on staggered performance targets...