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...vowed to be married only to the cause. She fends off seemingly endless declarations of love from patients. She also records passionate but platonic friendships with at least three younger soldiers, and an older Communist Party cadre, but is dismayed at the gossip these chaste relationships stir up. People "see only materialistic things, only sex!" she writes on April 5, 1970. "Oh, how detestable." (Not that Tram, living under the strain of war, is above amorous emotions. She becomes jealous when one of her platonic "little brothers" finds a girlfriend, insisting that he "place our relationship above everything else...
...prolific, influential writer of horror and sci-fi novels, short stories and films, from Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe movies of the '60s to the seminal '70s TV films Duel (Steven Spielberg's first feature) and The Night Stalker and the '90s films What Dreams May Come and Stir of Echoes, based on his novels. Some of Matheson's TV fables - the Twilight Zone story about the gremlin on the airplane wing, the Trilogy of Terror jape about a Zuni fetish doll chasing Karen Black around her apartment - linger at the base of many a viewer's spine, three...
...Hajj's murder is certain to stir further calls by the March 14 bloc to directly elect Suleiman by a simple parliamentary majority to avoid a prolonged void. The opposition has warned that such a move would be countered by street demonstrations and possibly the establishment of a rival government...
...They might have carried off the scam, but Darwin, an avid outdoorsman, was, "going stir crazy" trapped in the house, she said. In 2004, the Mirror reported, the couple decided to move abroad. Darwin obtained a passport under the name of John Jones, and traveled to Cyprus and Gibraltar before the couple settled on an apartment in Panama...
...Linux as a cheaper, more flexible alternative to Microsoft's proprietary programs (Microsoft declined to comment for this story.) Linux, in particular, is proving irresistible in the developing world. In Brazil, when Microsoft offered to install Windows in school computers pro bono, Brazil's chief technology officer caused a stir by comparing the company to drug dealers giving the first hit free. The cities of São Paulo, Recife and Porto Alegre are all running Linux, and the federal government aims to have 40% of all government systems using it by 2006. --By Andrew Downie/São Paulo