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...Last month, authorities began a three-month amnesty program, promising not to prosecute those who turn in firearms before Sept. 30. So far, 145 guns and a grenade have been handed over. But few expect the grace period will do more than convince a few civilians to come forward?Taiwan's gangsters won't be participating. "Most gang members say there are only two things that matter in the Taiwan underworld: money and firepower," says Ko-lin Chin, a Rutgers University professor who has written extensively about Taiwan's organized crime. "They won't hand over what they need...
...comes with each attendance at morning Mass: "We couldn't be more intimately united with Him every day." As for Sister Antoinette, her faith is cultivated daily along with the standard roses she tends in the central cloister. "As a botanist," she says, "I always allow for the grace of God." Needless to say, they're blooming...
...provided the families of their victims consent--spared execution in exchange for their surrender and cooperation. The deal was devised to reel in lower-level militants in hopes of isolating their hard-core leaders. It was also a canny political move. It enables King Fahd to point to the grace period he offered Saudi militants before his security forces begin a promised crackdown...
Government prosecutors are patting one another on the back for finally hooking the biggest fish in an investigation into what U.S. Deputy Attorney General James Comey described last week as Enron's "spectacular fall from grace." Lay, 62, was the public face of the once stodgy pipeline firm that morphed into the seventh biggest U.S. company by trading natural gas and megawatts of power. A minister's son with a Ph.D. in economics, Lay was spared being charged with approving Enron's now famous off-the-books partnerships that hid so much debt for so long. And unlike...
...they started off as speed swimmers. But after trying synchronized swimming they began competing - and winning - at the national level. Bianca defends their choice of this obscure, often ridiculed sport. "It's more than just ballet in the water," she says, noting that speed, power and grace are also required. "People think it's only a smile on the face, but it's all about story and feeling." The Van der Velden sisters aren't the only identical twins competing in Athens - the U.S.'s tennis team has its own true doubles - but that hardly explains their anonymity...