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...onto a lonely country road. There the gunmen ordered all Sikh men?identifiable by their turbans and beards?Muslims and women to get off the bus. They commanded the remaining 33 passengers, most of them Hindu, to shout the praises of a Sikh terrorist recently killed in a police shoot-out. Then, as the frightened bus riders began to comply, the gunmen cold-bloodedly opened fire. Twenty-two men died in the fusillade. The terrorists escaped with accomplices on motor scooters...
...late 2005, the rebels launched hundreds of raids across the country in what Victor describes as "the first nationally coordinated N.P.A. attacks since 1992." He claims 200 firearms were seized in Mindanao alone. With the violence intensifying, Giegie's sister Lenlen, 19, has already survived three shoot-outs; she was almost killed during an N.P.A. attack on an army post in Agusan del Sur province in 2005. One bullet hit her neck and ripped an exit through her armpit, while a second drilled into her thigh. "All I could think was, 'If I die here, I die for the people...
...Booker Prize?nominated novelist has surfed genres seemingly at random. Hall is an automatic writer in the Surrealist sense, giving vent to his dark subconscious. So it hardly comes as a surprise when the author stops to admire a graffiti-scribbled wall, against which Time's photographer decides to shoot him. "The way I work, anything that looks like a plan you can be damn sure it's actually an accident," Hall says. "I love accidents. I love things taking sideswipes and the world intruding...
...barbecues and bushfires?without, it seems, getting up people's noses. Few days pass without the hyperactive Queenslander making his earnest contribution, on radio or TV, to the issue of the moment. It's said that Rudd also took a short break. Even workaholics need a few days to shoot TV ads, strategize and catch up on recreational reading about monetary policy and political philosophy. With the country's workplaces and schools returning to normal patterns this week, the election campaign has begun?though the poll isn't due until late 2007. Howard is seeking a fifth term and remains...
...bars that covers the entire city, the rush to judgment is understandable. No modern capital is as open about its flesh trade as Bangkok is. Nor does my gender preclude me from generous offers. Touts invite me to watch sex shows in which teenage girls shoot ping-pong balls from their nethers. Or would I prefer darts? Or balloons? (I have caught the ping-pong show, and the athleticism, if nothing else, is staggering. Mostly, though, I decline the offers.) Even if my husband and I walk hand-in-hand down Bangkok streets, the women at massage parlors call...