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...arch-rival Brown's 47. In such a close meet, every top-four finish in the meet's 15 events--eight of which were won by Harvard--became crucial. Co-captain Brenda Taylor led the way with three individual wins and a blinding second leg of the meet-clinching mile relay...
Then began a weird, seven-day, 1,500-mile car trip to Arkansas, which grants adoptions in as few as 10 days if all the birth and adoptive parents agree. When motel rooms were full, the Kilshaws, Wecker, her daughter Nolle and her twins all slept in a green Dodge Caravan. The babies developed coughs, and one ended up in the hospital, dehydrated. But the adoption was approved in Arkansas. Just after Christmas the Kilshaws brought the babies, renamed Kimberly and Belinda, to their seven-bedroom farmhouse in northern Wales--and decided to tell their tale of Tina Johnson...
...Well, not quite. Situated in Burma's Shan state, less than a mile from the Chinese border, Mongla is ruled by a brutal heroin trafficker and has an unsavory reputation as a freewheeling center for gambling and prostitution. Yet, curiously, the Burmese regime is promoting it as a model town. Why? To find out, I hired a car and driver and set out for Mongla?the town that drugs built...
...baby grand, impishly editing footage and planting red-herring files at the official website to flummox them. At the S2 location, besieged by journalists spying from the air and infiltrators trying to break in on the ground, 25 guards, some on horseback, some wearing infrared glasses, patrolled the 25-mile perimeter around the camp ready to escort intruders away. Burnett insists the guards are always polite, but he adds, "I'm very serious about security...
...even worse the following week. Because of the p.r. effort over the war, the U.S. military wanted no talk of casualties. But we came across a mass burial ground that had been prepared in advance of the ground war. It covered a full square mile, complete with roads and road signs indicating that American dead would go here, Iraqi dead there, Saudi dead there and so on. We photographed it and filed a story on it. That got me right back on top of the arrest list...