Word: river
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...oxen and lacerating elephant grass. Next, lovely old Hue; there the monks have enshrined the Austin that in 1963 carried one of their number to what was then Saigon, where he immolated himself (a photograph of the fiery moment was stuck on the grille). Then out on the Perfume River in a rented boat so busily tarted up that it resembled nothing so much as spaghetti Bolognese. The Lurp, a little sorry hooch in his belly, loosened up. ''Yeah, I saw Mr. Bob Hope. They came and got us in the bush. Said we were going...
Pearl Jam came together as a serendipitous offshoot of a Sub Pop band called Green River. Rock legend, passed along by the resentful, has it that bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard split from that band because the lead vocalist wanted to stay true to the experimental spirit of alternative rock, while Ament and Gossard wanted to become big-time rock stars. The band they formed, Mother Love Bone, combined a heavy-metal sound with bouncy tunes. Just as the group seemed ready to break through in 1990, its lead singer died of a heroin overdose...
...area, he is little known there outside business circles, and he forbids interviewers to ask about his wife Leslie or their two children. A benevolent boss and a passionate sailor, Malone once painstakingly restored a turn-of-the century commuter boat that had ferried robber barons along the Hudson River. Among the few personal touches in his office are a working model of an 1854 America's Cup racer and a replica of his own yacht, the Leslie Ann. Employees call him ''Doctor'' for the Ph.D. in operations research that he earned at Johns Hopkins. ''Malone has three priorities...
...posted around the clock along a 20-mile stretch of the Rio Grande have virtually sealed off entry to illegal aliens, who used to stream into El Paso and adjacent New Mexico by the thousands from neighboring Ciudad Juarez. By scaring off Mexicans before they attempt to cross the river, agents have reduced their arrests from as many as 1,000 a day to an average of 135. El Paso officials envision giant savings in aliens' social costs -- now 20% of the budget -- if the border remains sealed. The crackdown has drawn overwhelming support from El Paso, which is itself...
...eviscerated any faith the Afghans once had in their government. "Russia came here with 150 thousand troops, and you know what happened," says businessman Mohammad Akbar Bhai. "Even if you bring one million troops in Afghanistan, the West cannot win. What we need is honest government. If a river starts in mud, everything downstream will be dirty...