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...everyone in Jacky's neighborhood is as badly off as Jacky and Bing. And even the slum has its nicer alleys, where the huts are made of finished wood and there are flush toilets and the skittering rats don't root through piles of festering garbage. The teens and twenty-somethings in these parts of the slum also like to smoke yaba, but they look down upon Jacky and Bing and their flagrant, raging addictions. Sure, the cool guys in the neighborhood, guys like Big, with a shaved head, gaunt face and sneering upper lip, drop into Jacky's once...
Campaign members say that the administration's conclusions fail to get to the root of the problem...
...sweetness that comes out in Coldplay's songs is at the root of both its appeal and its limitations. The sugary pickup lines ("In a haze, a stormy haze/I'll be around, I'll be loving you always") and delicate music might appeal to fans of old-fashioned pop balladry but not to many edgier listeners. Of course, Coldplay isn't particularly edgy. Berryman studied to be an engineer, like his father, before rock claimed him. Martin is reported to have a fondness for cricket and to drink rarely...
...crime may be the company he keeps. Ahn says Cholla's pols should have stopped meeting gangsters once they became important figures in government: "What's the public going to think? If you remain friends with fists, they are going to ask you for favors." Koreans may root for gangsters in the movies, but nobody wants to see the fists getting their hands on real power...
...announcement by the British and Italian governments that both countries would send their own immigration and police officials to the Balkans to help bust human trafficking rings, which are responsible for 10% of the illegal migration into Europe. On Friday Britain and France agreed to dispatch immigration officers to root out asylum seekers trying to slip across the Channel on the Eurostar. Meanwhile Britain's Home Secretary Jack Straw pressed for a tougher line against asylum shoppers-migrants who pass through several European countries before applying for asylum-and an overhaul of the international convention on refugees. Straw wants...