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Brabeck was born in Villach, Austria, six months before the end of World War II. His mother Edeltraud Brabeck recalls rushing with her infant son to an air-raid shelter to avoid Allied bombs. In the tough economic times after the war's end, the surrounding Alps became Brabeck's playground. By age 10, he was climbing with ropes. As a teenager, he took off for hiking trips with his friend Hans Thomassen, with little more than a tarp and his mother's sandwiches. She recalls that "he was always an adventurer, just like his father"--a salesman...
...legions of civil servants, few are as implacable as Pahamin Rajab, 54, point man in the struggle against digital counterfeiting. Decked out in his trademark bow tie and cowboy hat, the secretary-general of Malaysia's Trade and Consumer-Affairs Ministry recently led 100 security agents on a morning raid through a downtown shopping mall, seizing illegal music, video and computer-software CDs. At one retail booth, a television monitor was advertising bootlegged wares. "Take the TV," he ordered, pointing with his gold-tipped walking stick. "We will be back day after day until they shut down forever...
Lebanon's anti-drug squad and the handful of soldiers protecting them had an unpleasant surprise last month when they launched an annual raid on fields of ripe hashish in the northern Bekaa Valley. Rather than standing aside meekly while their hashish was ploughed up as in the past, the farmers this year were determined to protect their lucrative crops. "They shot at us with automatic weapons from nearby woods and houses," Colonel Adel Machmouchi, head of Lebanon's Drug Enforcement Bureau, told TIME. "RPGs [rocket-propelled grenades] were exploding above our heads and we had to leave...
...authorities have fled the city for the relative safety of their home villages, where they remain, still fearful of arrest for their roles in the protests. One man who helped shelter a young monk who had suffered a deep gash on the head while escaping from a monastery raid told me the monk had later fled for the provinces. He believes the attack on the clergy of this devoted Buddhist nation and the imprisonment of monks will come back to haunt the junta. "We believe that if you do good, you receive good," he says. "If you do bad things...
...also helped Galanter's profile. Simpson's celebrity made the lawyer a public figure almost overnight. Whenever Simpson gets in trouble - and that seems to be a constant - Galanter's name has been out there. That has included a federal drug raid on Simpson's home in 2001, a ticket for speeding in a manatee zone in 2002, a domestic violence call to his residence in 2003, and his participation last year in the writing of a fictional account of the murders of his former wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman...