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...city. In 1999 Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, an al-Qaeda agent wanted for the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Tanzania, was found there flipping burgers at a fast-food joint. Former Symbionese Liberation Army member James Kilgore, sought for his role in the 1975 murder of church worker Myrna Opsahl during a bank robbery in Carmichael, Calif., was found last year teaching economics at the University of Cape Town. And German con man Jurgen Harksen, who had lived in the city since 1993, was extradited to Germany last year, where he was convicted of fraud. Why do fugitives flock...
It’s a bittersweet story. Viewers can expect to come out of the exhibit with conflicting emotions, ranging from rage to despair to hope. Organized by Myrna Balk, a Boston artist and social worker, the show features drawings by Nepalese women, as well as etchings and photographs by Balk that chronicle her experiences in Nepal and the social issues she faced during her time there...
While My Generation, launched in February 2001, casts a net for everyone 44 to 55, More aims specifically at affluent, educated women, 40 to 60. "Most magazines have a primary baby-boomer audience," says More's editor in chief, Myrna Blyth, 62, who holds the same title at Meredith's Ladies' Home Journal. "What makes More different is that we reflect, report and celebrate this woman on every page." In fact, almost the only criticism you'll find in the More letters column comes from women who think models like Christie Brinkley, 47, are too girlish to be featured...
...Opsahl's website there is a photograph of his mother Myrna. She wears a sensible bob and a dimpled smile. Her gingham blouse is buttoned all the way to the top. The grainy black-and-white image is a throwback to an earlier time. But her son's words running beside it are both clear and current: "We know who was there when she was shotgunned to death... Twenty-six years is long enough to have waited...
That wait finally ended last Wednesday, when police charged five former figures in the Symbionese Liberation Army, a violent band of '70s radicals, with the murder of Myrna Opsahl. In February 1974 the S.L.A. entered the lexicon of domestic terror with the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst, who was later caught on a bank security camera toting a gun; in May of that year, the group was nearly wiped out in a fire fight with Los Angeles cops. But there were still plenty of hangers-on, like, allegedly, Sara Jane Olson, a Minnesota doctor's wife arrested...