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Aaron, 73, a bike in his office, pipe in his mouth, tweeds on his back, speaks in perfect paragraphs: "I took it on at first for the money. Then I became stuck, absorbed, caught up in it. I got to know him and his world in a way I know of nothing else, no other society. And while I disliked him intensely--I couldn't be further away from his political, economic, nearly all his attitudes--I became fascinated by his unique opportunity to indulge himself in a way no one else could. He was a voyeur, yes, a sadist...
...while Thacker was the national collegiate heavyweight wrestling champ from North Carolina State, class of '84. Now as Perry carries on his football career with the Chicago Bears, Thacker is branching out to try the movies. In Wildcats, Goldie Hawn, 40, plays a Chicago high school football coach stuck with the roughest athletes in the city. To help whip her charges into shape, she recruits a shy, oversize over achiever and A student, played by Thacker. The 6-ft. 5-in., 410-lb. thespian tried not to be thrown by his lines but had no trouble throwing around...
...years, more lending has gone into programs to improve governance, health and education. But some countries, such as Tanzania, have found that educated and healthy people are still poor if they lack jobs. One of Wolfowitz's big challenges will be to kick-start growth in countries that seem stuck in an endless cycle of poverty. The Bank has also striven to combat corruption among governments that receive Bank assistance, insisting that countries meet tougher standards for transparency. But some outsiders say the Bank remains too lenient. Republican U.S. Senator Richard Lugar introduced a bill last month that would help...
TIME followed one gang, the Playboys, off and on for three months. The Playboys, with several hundred members, are just one of 1,300 such groups in L.A., all of them stuck in a deadly spiral of violence that the justice system has not broken, though it has put tens of thousands of gangsters behind bars. Five members of the Playboys were shot dead in the past year--most of them in senseless turf battles with nearby rivals...
...getting out. Since the airlift from Vietnam, South Korean officials have publicly discouraged organized efforts to help North Koreans leave. Seoul has also tightened screening of asylum seekers and reduced cash settlements for newly arrived defectors from $36,000 to $20,000, money that many used to rescue relatives stuck in North Korea and China. "The government is trying so hard to discourage defectors from coming to South Korea," says Park Sang Hak, an activist with the Democracy Network Against North Korean Gulag, a Seoul-based NGO. "They are telling us: 'You are not welcome here anymore...