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...straight into the girl's eyes as they take their food. "I have chilli and satay," she smiles, and moves on. After two circuits of the bar, she pops her things back on and resumes drinks service as though nothing has happened. A grubby, grizzled old man nudges the stranger to say goodbye. "What about that, eh? I was f___in' waitin' for that. Gotta go for me f___in' tea; me f___in' missus is waitin' in the car." The walk back to the motel passes the grandeur of St. Francis Xavier Cathedral; between the rooftops come glimpses...
...point of absurdity. I had laughed with millions when Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer got arrested for violating the Good Samaritan law in the last episode of Seinfeld. After all, people always do what’s best for themselves, going their various ways without thinking twice about strangers, let alone going out of their way for one. I figured I’d thank Marty by giving him a reward. “Go out to a nice dinner with your family” I told him as I held out a generous...
...free rides home were offered and gratefully accepted, beds for lost travelers and survivors were provided by slum-dwellers, and people rushed to hospitals to donate blood, as blood types became more important than caste or religion in India’s most cosmopolitan city. Sadly, Bombay is no stranger to terrorism. In 1993 it was ravaged by a series of bomb blasts attributed to criminal gangs, which killed over 250 people. Along with other smaller blasts over the last few years, India has tackled terrorism in Kashmir, Maoist insurgencies and frequent acts of terrorism across the country, as well...
...legal wife, his neighbor Isaac Wyler knew something was up. Sure enough, the next time Wyler saw the girl, who was about 15 or 16 years old, she was pregnant. Wyler, an ex-member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints (FLDS), was no stranger to the signs of polygamy. His suspicions proved true: Fischer had "spiritually" married his own step-daughter in a secret ceremony, a practice common among polygamists in the FLDS community in Colorado City, Ariz...
...South Lebanon is no stranger to bloodshed and violence. The last time Israel launched a punishing offensive against its Hizballah enemies was in April 1996 with Operation Grapes of Wrath. In that two-week campaign of air strikes, some 170 Lebanese civilians were killed. But that grim figure was reached after only five days of Operation Just Desserts, and the evidence of the destruction wrought on this hilly region of citrus orchards, tobacco fields and olive groves can be found in the teeming corridors of the Jabel Amel hospital...