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...Shadow By Philip P. Pan Simon & Schuster; 349 pages...
...They literally cut him off at the knees," says Judy Moore, vice president of the neighborhood association in Los Angeles' historic Carthay Circle. Dan is a 7-ft. (2 m) bronze statue of a gold miner that stood in a Los Angeles park for 84 years, holding his sifting pan like a deep-dish pizza. Appraisers say he's worth $125,000. In February, thieves sliced Dan in two and took him to a scrap yard to be melted down for $900. Why did a couple of crooks have the brass to steal a gold miner? Because of copper...
...government that a more intensive crackdown on multilevel corruption is needed. The Chinese people have empowered themselves through their volunteerism and compassion. However, their lives - and livelihoods - will remain shaky until the authorities truly understand that "Each man's death diminishes me, / For I am involved in mankind." Daan Pan, DIAMOND BAR, CALIF...
...face of nature's overwhelming power, the Chinese people empowered themselves through compassion and acts of charity. However, their lives and livelihood will remain shaky until the powers that be truly understand John Donne's remark: "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind." Daan Pan, Diamond Bar, California...
...eventually moved to New Jersey and settled into the life of a security executive, but Rescorla still acted, in some ways, like a man at war. His unit, Morgan Stanley, occupied 22 floors of Tower 2 and several floors in a nearby building. After the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, Rescorla worried about a terrorist attack on the Trade Center. In 1990, he and an old war buddy wrote a report to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the Trade Center site, insisting on the need for more security...