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...compound where they were housed. Seven other allied soldiers were injured. Though early reports suggested that a terrorist attack or a land mine may have caused the explosion, NATO officials later revealed that one of the Portuguese soldiers had brought the grenade-type bomb to the barracks as a souvenir...
...often minimizes Mapplethrope's sociopathic impulses, which appeared early on in childhood, when, according to the book, he took delight in killing his pets. Morrisroe also gives a bizarre account of the older Mapplethorpe's torture and starvation of his pets monkey, Scrath, whose skull he kept as a souvenir after the animal's death. Too often, these disturbing incidents are attributed to the various social pressures that Mapplethrope faced: Catholicism, his parents, his background. To be sure, much of the artist's behavior was supposed to be part of the act; Mapplethorpe loved to play the part...
...BILLBOARDS AROUND ORLANDO, Florida, call Kissimmee "the affordable place to live." Take I-4 south and look for the Disney World exit, then drive in the opposite direction. There, behind the souvenir shops and motels, live America's working poor. It's not a bad neighborhood. The lawns are mowed, and the kids can play safely in the street. Anybody who wants a job can find one: Orlando was one of the nation's top five cities for job growth last year, with 40,000 new positions. Only 10% of the area's residents live below the poverty line...
Hanging up in his office in the maintenance shed is a souvenir print of an Indian in a headdress with this legend underneath: around this camp, there's only one chief. Smith, whose tribal name is Running Bear, is a benevolent chief. He is unfailingly considerate of his crew members, making sure they have enough money for lunch, enough passes for the Open, enough rest for what he calls "the war" -- when 156 golfers and 30,000 fans a day invade Shinnecock. A 1975 Dartmouth graduate, Smith thought he might become a teacher or a banker. "My father never meant...
...China. He also wanted to check out personally the country's leader, Chiang Kai-shek, a man he had largely created, at least as far as most Americans were concerned. Traveling with his wife, the formidable Clare Boothe Luce, "Harry," as he was called, decided to bring home a souvenir, a talented bundle of energy named Theodore H. White. They are the Harry & Teddy (Random House; 340 pages; $24) of this smart little guide to big-time journalism by Thomas Griffith, a former foreign editor of TIME and editor of LIFE...