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...Will Stronghold (Michael Angarano), the son of the world’s two greatest superheroes, The Commander (Kurt Russell) and Jetstream (Kelly Preston), has a lot to live up to as he enters his first day at Sky High. It’s here that he’ll be thrown into one of two castes: Hero or Sidekick. “If life were suddenly to get fair,” Will tells his friend Layla as she describes the problems of the system, “I doubt it would happen in high school...
...That includes the Shan stronghold at Loi Tai Leng, where almost every resident is a victim of the Burmese military or a witness to its savagery. Wi Ling, 34, stands outside his newly rebuilt shack on one good leg and one bad. Two years ago he was living with his family near Taunggyi, the Shan state capital, when Burmese soldiers dragooned him and 14 other villagers as porters. Three were shot dead, while Wi Ling was forced at gunpoint into a suspected minefield. A month after he was conscripted, he stepped on a mine, which blew most of his left...
...After Schröder's party was severely beaten in North Rhine-Westphalia, a Social Democratic stronghold for 39 years, and was suffering its lowest approval ratings since World War II, Schröder should have resigned gracefully. Instead, he decided to call a snap election. Nevertheless, there are two possible outcomes. Either Schröder will be re-elected or he will discover, like King Canute, that even he cannot turn back an incoming tide. Joshua Selig Dorset, England...
...justified. Sneers Gerry Spence, a famed Wyoming trial lawyer (no relation to Miami's J.B. Spence): "What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies." Consumerists often point to the judgment of Wall Street, hardly a Naderite stronghold. Stock traders bid up the price of property-casualty insurance shares an average of about 50% last year, in the apparent belief that the industry at minimum is on its way back to solid profitability...
...ground and in the air last week, fighting in the 6-year-old revolt of Afghan rebels against Soviet invasion forces reached its fiercest level. In an all-out drive to cut the guerrillas' main supply line from Pakistan, Soviet troops overran a key stronghold in Jawar in eastern Afghanistan. The mile-long underground complex was a major training and storage site for the anti-Communist mujahedin forces. Meanwhile, waves of war-planes blasted insurgent positions along the Afghan-Pakistani border as some 10,000 Soviet and Afghan troops advanced on the ground. "This is the worst fighting...