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...first body she saw, she says, was her 65-year-old neighbor, Bui Van Vat. Lying near him were his 62-year-old wife Canh and the couple's three grandchildren, all under 12 and all stabbed to death. Terrified, Lanh says she ran back inside her hut, a makeshift sleeping shelter with a low ditch dug in the floor to shield from incoming bullets. But first, she says, she glimpsed seven shadowy figures moving toward another nearby shelter. Later, she heard gunfire. It was an hour before Lanh worked up the courage to go outside. When...
...niceties of diplomacy has ruffled friendly feathers. During South Korean President Kim Dae Jung's recent visit to Washington, Bush embarrassed the Nobel laureate by saying he didn't trust North Korea to live up to the missile agreement Kim has been painstakingly trying to forge with his menacing neighbor. However valid Bush's concern, by expressing it publicly he undercut an ally. Likewise, Bush's abrupt abandonment of the Kyoto global warming treaty, whatever the merits of the decision, provoked a wave of anger across the Atlantic and in a stroke reinvigorated anti-American feeling throughout Europe...
...first body she saw, she says, was her 65-year-old neighbor, Bui Van Vat. Lying near him were his 62-year-old wife Canh and the couple's three grandchildren, all under 12 and all stabbed to death. Terrified, Lanh says she ran back inside her hut, a makeshift sleeping shelter with a low ditch dug in the floor to shield from incoming bullets. But first, she says, she glimpsed seven shadowy figures moving toward another nearby shelter. Later, she heard gunfire. It was an hour before Lanh worked up the courage to go outside. When...
...friend is Lee Paris, a neighbor of Weary's who runs an investment and real estate business. Weary is executive director, and Paris is chairman, of a religious group called Mission Mississippi. "There's a cliche that the most segregated hour in the South is 11 o'clock on Sunday," Weary says. Since most blacks and whites in Mississippi are Christian, their idea was to use that common ground to find common ground on other issues, such as race. Paris, 43, spends a few minutes telling a heartfelt story about his Jewish great-great-grandfather, who escaped European persecution...
...undervalued knickknacks she could then list on eBay. At first Young tried to keep 15 auctions going at any given time; then 25; then 50. Eventually, she reached 100. When the packing and fulfillment got to be too much to handle, she hired her first employee: a retired neighbor, who helped out part time...