Word: rocke
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...calmly shot him in the chest three times. A woman who sold fish in a market was ordered to lie down on the ground. When she hesitated, a boy in the rebel army slashed her neck with a machete. When she fell, a soldier put her wrist on a rock and cut off her hand. "They left me there," she told interviewers. "I walked 11 days to Forekonia [on the Guinea border], and I had to bury my own hand." The amputations are a common form of terror. Young rebels blithely ask victims if they want "long sleeves or short...
...Orange County, Calif., coastal-wear industry, the Volcom stone--a diamond-shape logo sewn onto shirts, shorts and pants--is totally core, commanding huge respect within the genre of attitude-drenched brands that cool 15-year-olds crave. "Whatever they put the stone on is gonna rock out the door," says Joe Luzzia, owner of Identity Board Shop in Buena Vista, Calif. "You can tell they're the next big thing...
...ends of the baby-boom generation they represent. Clinton, who entered college in 1964, is dripping with Sixties values: a John F. Kennedy-style belief in public service as a calling; an Age-of-Aquarius focus on emotional connection; and a countercultural streak of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. Gates, who came of age in the 1970s, has a Watergate-era detachment from politics, a mind-set more "me-generation" than "love-in," and a passion for the great revolutionary force of his own decade: the personal computer...
Uncovering the discs' multimedia treasures is the most fun. Brief movies on historic sites in Africa tell of the medieval trading city Timbuktu (in what is now Mali) and the underground churches hewn from volcanic rock in Ethiopia's 12th century Christian empire Lalibela. Choice video clips, such as those of the Harlem Globetrotters' comic basketball team and singer Bessie Smith, reveal what words could only suggest...
...most festivals, not just Sundance." This year the buzz is swarming around Robert Altman's "Cookie's Fortune," starring Glenn Close, which opens the festival Thursday evening, as well as Allison Anders' new feature, "Sugar Town," in which former Duran Duran member John Taylor portrays a washed-up rock star. No word yet on whether any of the entries involves two guys in a car and girl on the road...