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...history of growing up in the fifties--when my neighbors formed an extended family, when television was young, when the street was our common playground, when our lives seemed free from worry, until one remembered the sweeping fears of polio, communist subversion, and the atomic bomb that hung over our childhood days like low-lying clouds...
...result was a hung jury, and the judge advised Leong to settle his claim...
...endless list of edicts and absurdities at gunpoint, with rifle butts, with the backs of their hands. Women are forbidden to wear high heels or white socks because they are considered a sexual lure. Music is banned: cassettes are often snatched out of cars, the tapes stripped out and hung on signs as a warning. Kites may not be flown, and most forms of public entertainment, like movies, are not permitted...
...himself tossing and turning at night because he had little in the way of local service to sell. So while driving to work on Aug. 12, 1996, he dialed up James Crowe, chairman of a local-service provider called MFS Communications, to propose a deal. By the time Ebbers hung up, he was ready to shell out $12.5 billion for MFS, which was itself acquiring UUNet, the world's largest source of trunk lines--or "backbones"--to the Internet...
...deportation of Jews, represents France?s last chance to examine a shameful period in its history. ?This is not just a trial of the actions of an individual," Sancton says. "It?s being structured to allow France to air its dirty linen.? Papon, however, may no longer be hung...