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...they sat on the couch, she found herself falling asleep. "By now, I'm comfortable with him, and I put my head on his shoulder. He's not tried anything all evening, after all." Which is when the rape came. "I woke up to find him on top of me, forcing himself on me. I didn't scream or run. All I could think about was my business contacts and what if they saw me run out of my room screaming rape...
Chun left a note for fellow students: "Although there are many things remaining to be done, if you participate in fighting and shoulder my share of the responsibility, I will close my eyes peacefully." But in spite of his suicidal act, and the five since then, the fighting spirit of the students seems to be flagging. Three weeks after Chun's death, candles still burn at the shrine erected to his memory, but students mill around, sipping sodas and talking about exams. On the steps below the spot where he died, fewer than 40 people turned up last week...
...competition and galloped to a $70 million gross; Total Recall, the first brawnbuster released last June, beat out its beefy competition. So an early start is helpful. This Memorial Day weekend, Hudson Hawk, with Bruce Willis as a reformed thief forced to commit one last heist, will try to shoulder out Backdraft, director Ron Howard's fireman-buddy epic starring Kurt Russell and Robert De Niro. Maybe those two films will duke it out all summer. Or maybe they will cream each other and leave space for late May's gal-buddy movie, Thelma and Louise, with Susan Sarandon...
...same scam plays out at countless public phones, not just in New York City but in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and Washington as well. Someone picks up a credit-card number, often by looking over a legitimate user's shoulder or listening in on a charge call placed at a rotary phone. A working number can fetch $50 to $100 from a middleman, who then retails it to long lines of customers eager to pay $5 to $15 to call friends and relatives in, say, Colombia, Poland or the Philippines. A single number can quickly...
...think it's very helpful if the old president remains pretty much out of sight so that the new president doesn't feel that anyone is looking over his shoulder," he says. "Being 3000 miles away and barely in touch by telephone... I'll be about as inaccessible as he needs...