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...ordeal that follows unfolds like a gender-bending version of The Story of O. Helplessly, the dancer must submit to his captors' sexual demands and to an excruciating but not disabling form of mutilation. His body is made the centerpiece of a pornographic banquet; he is forced to dance, chained and naked, before an invited audience of masked guests. The women, faces always hidden, refuse his pleas for an explanation of why they are doing this...
...hijackers asylum in Britain would undermine international efforts to curb terrorism. The hijacking drama came to a peaceful end Wednesday night as the hijackers allowed the last remaining passengers to leave, and then walked off the plane and into police custody. Despite a call early on in the ordeal for the release of an Afghan opposition leader, the hijackers had made no specific demands after forcing the Ariana Boeing 727 to fly from Moscow to London on Sunday, and had released small groups of hostages almost daily as they negotiated with British police. Although no details of those discussions were...
...reality hits you: it's laundry day again. You lug your sack of laundry--usually a parting gift from your parents as a last hurrah before college--and bottle of Tide down 36 flights of stairs. And then you realize that you forgot your swipe card and your laundry ordeal begins...
...paid a visit to the postmodern BMW factory near the town of Greer last week, he was introduced as "our hero." Speaker after speaker hammered Clinton for moral and ethical depredations, the crowd cheered wildly, and Bush took the stage grinning. "We have been put through a terrible, slimy ordeal," he said. The crowd went wild again. There was, the former President implied, one way to right these wrongs. In the battle of the surrogates, Joe McCain can't compete against George Bush. And to fare any better in the battle of the candidates, John McCain will need...
...vets they had spied on in the past. "In Russia, they are the people that know the terrain the best," says IGI vice president Jack Devine. "They know how to negotiate." Evidently. According to Devine, the "negotiators" came up with an agreement "which was comfortable for all parties." The ordeal cost Copperfield more than $500,000, but on Jan. 15 his magic convoy finally disappeared from Russia, crossing the border into friendlier Finland...