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Businessmen solicit prostitutes. Muggers attack worshipers as they pray. Homeless mothers sleep in pews. Pilferers raid donation boxes. One man senselessly destroys a revered icon...
...street cat," she says. "I'm sassy and fresh to everybody. If you don't hear from me, it means things are fine." She grew up near Munich, Germany, and remembers the privations, the bombings and air-raid scramblings she experienced as a child during World War II. "In our house I was in charge of the cat and the little jewel box," she recalls. At 14, she left school and went to work. " I developed a major curiosity about America," she says. "So I came here and walked into the Time building off the street. I don't know...
...juvenile delinquent -- the Gidget crowd, in short. A good point is scored about the seepage between the realities of adolescent life and the ways it is portrayed in the media. Finally, Matinee assaults the general goofiness of American life in the period -- bomb shelters, duck-and-cover air-raid drills, general prudishness and even stupid nutritional beliefs...
Rosenfeld was arrested in 1991 after hatching a plot to build and sell IBM computers. He and some pals bought nearly $1 million worth of computer parts using credit-card numbers from strangers' credit reports. A Secret Service raid on Rosenfeld's Brooklyn, New York, home uncovered 176 credit reports stolen from TRW, a leading credit-rating company. He says he sold "thousands" of such reports to private investigators...
...allies responded to none of this with haste. Plans for the raid began months before Christmas. Bush, in phone consultations with British Prime Minister John Major and French President Francois Mitterrand, agreed that the violations of the no-fly zones could not go unanswered. Top military staff at all three defense ministries were instructed to draft a variety of options, ranging from a strike on one no-fly zone to a major assault on Iraq's airfields, missile bases and control-and-command structure. During Bush's New Year's Eve visit to Riyadh, he enlisted the cooperation of King...