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...NOTEBOOK Philippines: Tower of Trouble Indonesia: New Terror Tactic? China: The Longish March Milestones Verbatim Letters...
...Some were shot; others they knifed or bludgeoned with rifle butts as they screamed for mercy. It lasted for about half an hour. Eventually, an excavator came to bury the bodies." Later, he described a visit by Frenki to their camp. "He was wearing sharp civilian clothes and had longish hair and expensive-looking sunglasses. He said that he came as a representative of the state of Serbia and that we were 'Serbian knights,' shock troops in a war against Serbia's enemies, and that the fate of all Serbs depended...
...John would not talk about his dead father and uncle; classmates recall only one history class in his Collegiate career when John mentioned the President. If you didn't know who he was, you'd take him for a typical '70s teenager, face obscured by a helmet of longish brown hair, heading to Central Park with his friends to throw a Frisbee or play with a pack of bandanna-wearing dogs. Sometimes he would lose his Secret Service detail, so he could head for the park and hang out freely with his friends; once after doing so, he was mugged...
...couldn't find her house. Then he got lucky--or so he thought. A police wagon was idling down the block, and Colbert got out of his dark blue 1985 Toyota Camry to ask directions. Inside the police van were two uniformed cops, a lean, square-jawed officer with longish yellow hair--known and feared on the streets as Blondie--and a short, dark-haired officer named Tommy Ryan. As Colbert recalls it today, "I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I probably would have been safer in Kuwait...
What is whole language? The best person to ask is Ken Goodman, a professor at the University of Arizona. Grandfatherly, with a goatee and longish white hair, Goodman is the quietly charismatic leader of the whole-language movement. "Whole language isn't something that can be summed up in two sentences," he says. "It is a belief system that grounds one's teaching. A pedagogy." Goodman and Frank Smith, a cognitive psychologist, developed the theories behind whole language in the late 1960s. Goodman asked adults and children to read aloud, then studied the ways in which what they said varied...