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Sometimes hair-dyeing rescues what might otherwise be a boring Saturday night. I mean, c'mon, once you slap on the rubber gloves and start stroking that cold, gooey Manic Panic into your best friend's hair, there's no other place you would rather be. Brown had her initial dyeing experience during high school, when her sister returned home from college for the first time. "It was a great bonding moment," she recalls. Here at school, hair-dyeing continues to be relatively spontaneous. Brown continues, "You have the feeling that you want to dye building...
...unit commanded by General Ly Tong Ba did put up a fierce fight at Cu Chi, about 12 miles from Saigon, through the night of April 28 and on into the afternoon of the 29th. But, finding his position untenable, Ba decided on a fighting retreat to Hoc Mon, a bit closer to Saigon. "I bring my staff with me, working, fighting," says Ba. "Oh, the bullets just...
...ambushed Ba's troops on the road to Hoc Mon. Ba remembers yelling "Shoot, shoot, shoot!" at his force, only to have a captain tell him, "Sir, we cannot shoot. I think it's all over now, sir." At NVA command, Ba's men meekly laid down their weapons, while the general and his bodyguard hid in a flooded rice paddy, lying face up with eyes half shut and only noses poking above the murky water. That bought Ba less than 24 hours of freedom. He tried to get through the NVA lines by passing himself off as a farmer...
Charles Krauthammer in his piece "Hiroshima, Mon Petit" [ESSAY, March 27] argues that we do a disservice to children when we introduce them tothe real world in books like this year's Caldecott Medal winner, Smoky Night, a picture book about the Los Angeles riots. We publishers, however, feel strongly that we would be doing children a disservice by pretending that the world is rosy and cozy. Youngsters of the '90s do not live in a tooth-fairy world. We feel that children are better prepared for life todya when books provide them the opportunity to question, to discuss...
...Wang Center. 270 Tremont St.,Boston. On Mon., April 10, "Mary Poppins" at 7:30.Tickets...