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...Northern Virginia,” Villanueva points out. “Over 26,000 casualties were suffered on both sides. Butterfield had lost over 600 of his men on June 27 at the battle of Gaines Mill and had himself been wounded. In the midst of the heat, humidity, mud, mosquitoes, dysentery, typhoid and general wretchedness of camp life in that early July, it is hard to imagine being able to write anything...
...overhaul is overdue. Latter-day corruption scandals involving the NIS, agents of which have been routinely called upon to do powerful politicians' dirty work, have crippled presidencies and dragged the agency's name through the mud. But conservative lawmakers are worried the housecleaning comes at an inopportune time, during a period of heightened tension over North Korea's nuclear-weapons development. The NIS will still ferret out North Korean spies. But the job of catching domestic sympathizers will be passed to the country's police. The fear is that the shift in responsibilities, as well as efforts to make...
CHARGED. CHRISTINE NEAL, 49, and MARCY SPIWAK, 49, parents of students at Illinois' Glenbrook North High, the school attended by senior girls who earlier this month hazed juniors in an ugly ritual in which students were splattered with feces, pig intestines and mud; with delivering beer to a minor and allowing underage drinking at her home, respectively; following misdemeanor battery charges against 15 students; in Skokie, Ill. Neal, who has not commented, and Spiwak, who denied knowing about drinking in her home, face a maximum of a year in jail...
...soap Juliet's Man until dawn. "I was very happy," she says. "It was a very revolutionary thing for me to stay up all night watching movies." That's exactly what scares the Party. The document warns that if nothing is done, "Socialism is going to crumble like a mud wall soaked in water." So it instructs cadres to deliver a "severe blow" to illicit viewers and "quickly turn in all the impure materials you have to the related authorities." That way, they can watch them...
...girls, Bar Girls also manages more than a few lingering looks up their skirts. Pleased with the antidrug message, censors allowed an unprecedented amount of skin and sin. Sure, there are gritty scenes of vomiting in toilets and a heroin overdose, but there are also two catfights (one in mud), girls in bikinis jumping up and down, and Vietnam's first government-approved topless shot. "It's true I focused on the entertainment value of the film," says director and co-writer Le Hoang. "If your film is not appealing enough, your propaganda efforts will fail...