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...Music of the 1986 11-song dpp compilation Oh! Formosa packages Chen the sex symbol rather than Chen the A-student. The handsome, well-coiffed A Bian?make that Ahhhhh!-Bian?is posed on the cover, emanating halos of mojo, windbreaker coolly unzipped, hands hitched smugly in his low-slung slacks. As he warbles Lover's Pillow in his adenoidal tenor to Casio keyboard accompaniment, it all begins to make sense. The Taiwanese people must have known that inside the mild-mannered technocrat was a musky he-man who?and please, don't make him do it?could arouse...
Jenn’s cell phone is bright red. She favors tight green tops, turquoise halters, low-slung Deisel jeans and tan leather coats with snaps. If Jenn’s writing could be associated, somehow, with her clothing, every one of her stories would be a Moschino haute couture limited edition strapless dress. “My sister and I have big butt problems,” she says after realizing that her black, lacy thong was emerging from inside her trousers. And Jenn’s butt is famous. She has a gorgeous, luscious rear that attracts...
...stuck in Trenton, and his presence meant that a battlefield rifle was orbiting the terminal. Last Thanksgiving I was confident that no one could sneak a fully-loaded five-foot rifle through the metal detectors and into the terminal, but this Thanksgiving he had one slung over his shoulder. And if a grumpy business traveler should hurry through a security checkpoint, I could only wonder whether everyone in the vicinity would have to duck when he pointed his M-16 in threat...
...Tonight, the occasional burst of gunfire still rings out in the city, but order is fast returning. Alliance soldiers patrol the streets and monitor traffic at checkpoints. AK-47s slung over their shoulders and sacks of RPG rockets in the back of their high-powered pickup trucks. But in a country that has been at war for more than two decades, armed fighters are merely part of the scenery...
...Afghanistan's youth have never known peace. For two decades, their country has been at war, first with the Soviets and then among homegrown factions. So many children wander the streets with firearms that, after a while, scenes of 12-year-olds skipping along with Kalashnikovs slung over their shoulders seem almost normal. If Afghanistan is ever to settle into peace, these children will have the hardest time adjusting to a place where people don't resolve political squabbles with the pull of a trigger. "One of the most difficult things to change in our country is the younger generation...