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...father saw it as a scientific inquiry into aerodynamic equilibrium. The adolescent Tony picked up older boys and brought them home. His mother loathed his homosexuality and eventually tried to eradicate it by having sex with him. Spooky stories abounded about Tony's strange disappearances, his attempts to hide himself (once in a school laundry chute), his bursts of exhibitionism. Although he had left numerous prep schools, he and his mother decided he was ready, with brief cramming, to enroll at Oxford. His father looked on from afar with contempt. Brooks had repeatedly tried to leave his wife; she responded...
...accused Peres of "dangerous deviations from the agreed policy of this government." Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the Likud bloc, was more circumspect. At a two-hour luncheon meeting with European Community foreign ministers in Luxembourg, he said only that an "international forum" would allow the P.L.O. to "hide behind" one or more participating delegations...
Citing a particularly egregious example of theft, Jackson said that Kitty Hawk sailors managed to requisition 31 bars of pure silver, each weighing 9 Ibs. and worth about $535. The sailors were able to secure the bars from a shore supply depot and hide them. No record of the orders was kept on board, so the pilfering would not have been discovered if one of the sailors had not been caught trying to sell several bars...
...Society. As a result of the attention the President's illness has attracted, the Massachusetts branch of the society has scrapped a 1981 poster that asked, "What is the cancer no one talks about?" The new one reads, "What is the cancer everyone talks about?" JUSTICE No Place to Hide...
...been properly endorsed by previous employers for many years, and so she is not legally registered with her present employer. Occasionally she stays at the big house when the white family goes away, and she knows that if inspectors come around to check her identification she must hide from them. "When there is trouble in Soweto, I don't worry too much," she says. "Nobody bothers an old woman. But on the last Friday of the month, the tsotsis [thugs] are out to rob people who have been paid. They don't care if you are an old woman...