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...Army shot to prominence almost a year ago when 10 rebels from the group's camp stormed a hospital in the Thai town of Ratchaburi, taking 500 patients and staff members hostage. They were demanding that the Thai military stop shelling their mountain and that doctors treat their wounded. Witnesses said Thai commandos executed the 10 after they surrendered. The bloodshed briefly focused the world's attention on the strange tales seeping from the Burmese jungle. Although the rifle-toting, 12-year-old leaders had never ventured more than a few miles from their base on Kersay...
Johnny and Luther will most probably be allowed to live with their mother, who has been residing in a Thai refugee camp, Thai authorities said. Meanwhile, not all of God's Army have been cast down from the mountain. About 30 rebels still roam the jungle. Refugees still walk over the border and hide in Burma's forests, fleeing Rangoon's soldiers. Some Karen refuse to believe the twins are finished. They say the boys will grow strong again and return to vanquish their foes. The Karen are a people still in need of a savior...
Being coolly logical, environmentally conscious types, they were happy last week to do their bit for conservation. Search engine Google turned off all the lava lamps at its ultrahip Mountain View headquarters. Santa Clara-based DSL provider Covad soldiered on without its cubicle heaters. But not everyone coped with equal aplomb: employees at Keen.com in San Francisco were said by their p.r. rep to be "frothing at the mouth" at the possibility that their Ping-Pong tournament, needing optimal lighting for peak performance, might be postponed by power cuts. Some activities are still sacred after...
...they look stepping into the conflagrations of men twice their size. JEFF VAN GUNDY'S dream is still unrealized. In 1998 the 5-ft. 9-in. Knick coach rode out a New York-Miami playoff brawl attached like a poodle to the leg of 6-ft. 10-in. man-mountain Alonzo Mourning. It wasn't his finest moment, but he escaped unharmed. This time, he wasn't so lucky. On Martin Luther King Day, Van Gundy tried to make peace between warring Knick MARCUS CAMBY and elbowing Spur DANNY FERRY. Camby, 6 ft. 11 in., swung at and missed Ferry...
Ashcroft grew up in rural Springfield, Mo., a green and rolling part of the state that has voted Republican since the Civil War. Back when Missouri sent 10 Democrats to Congress, Springfield was the lone Republican holdout. It was free-labor, antiunion territory, with antislave, Bible-belt, mountain people. Young John was the middle son of a renowned Pentecostal educator and minister. His was a strict and loving household, childhood friends say, where smoking, drinking and dancing were forbidden, and Sundays were for prayer and study, not work or play. When John was a teenager, he and his brother Wesley...