Word: ran
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...said, they saw Livingstone leaving the elevator that connected to Foster's office suite with a briefcase and box of loose-leaf binders (Livingstone denied removing documents from Foster's office). Because of these provocative appearances, Livingstone was deposed by various investigatory panels, including the Senate Whitewater Committee, and ran up enormous legal bills. (He has started a defense fund.) The investigators focused on better-connected figures after concluding, in the words of a committee source, that Livingstone was "more or less clueless...
Pham, who is 49 and now lives in Garden Grove, California, was one of about 450 South Vietnamese commandos who were part of an operation called Oplan-34A, which the CIA and Pentagon ran between 1961 and 1968. Two hundred of the commandos who are now living in the U.S. have filed a suit asking that all commandos still alive be paid $2,000 for every year they served in prison--an estimated total of $11 million. Two weeks ago, the case broke open when a federal claims court forced the CIA and the Pentagon to declassify secret payroll rosters...
...movement was born a few years ago when the fire trucks rounded the corner in my subdivision, running a little low on water. They were met with a full-blown attack from the spectators. Kids with supersoakers and an artillery of water balloons ran interference and diverted the attention of the firefighters. The junior high students went for the firefighters on top of the trucks, launching water balloons with their three-man sling-shot. The adults manned the garden hoses. The fire department soon ran out of water and we declared victory. However, our fire fighters are resourceful folks...
...will appear in four movies in the next year, having caught the eye of some world-class directors. Woody Allen, for instance, who cast her in his latest film but, alas, had to drop the subplot line in which she was featured when the first cut of the movie ran over three hours. Nevertheless, the reticent director calls her "a wonderful actress, a delight." Bernardo Bertolucci is equally enamored: the actress stars in his latest film, a midsummer night's Tuscan dream called Stealing Beauty, which opens this week. Last week she finished shooting a film with the Irish director...
...helped her catch on in Beijing as a reporter for the New York Times; years later, after working for papers in North America, she returned to China as a correspondent for the Toronto Globe and Mail. She was still in love with China but not with the gangsters who ran it, and her account of the Tiananmen Square rebellion and massacre is not just good reporting; it is eloquent, hard-earned history. High levels of both foolishness and good sense, in that order, are necessary for a really fine youthful memoir; on both counts Jan Wong's is a classic...