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When local police arrived at the temple, they unzipped the bulky, black bag to find the corpse of a young Taiwanese man, naked except for a pair of tartan boxer shorts wrapped around his head. The man had been dead for two days, although the cause of death was hard to determine. Murder was a given. Why else would the body have been disposed of so brutally and anonymously...
While the younger breed wears striped clothing effortlessly, those of us who have been sporting plaid fashions since the early '90s may find the switch to stripes a tough transition to make. We're used to the earnest complexity of the tartan and the understated intricacy of black-watch. It's not easy to leave behind the gridded blues, greens, reds and yellows for the linear turquoise and black...
...treatment of female troops (TIME Daily) ...The first face-to-face meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Albright and Palestinian President Arafat left both sides skeptical (TIME Daily)... Scots go to the polls today to vote on a plan for a Scottish Parliament, but will they give it "Tartan Tax"-raising powers? (TIME Daily) ... NASA's Martian "spy satellite," Global Surveyor, begins its first orbit of the Red Planet (TIME Daily) ... Twenty years after South African security police beat him to death, Steve Biko is getting his day in court (TIME Daily) ... National Security Adviser Samuel Berger tells the Senate...
With its button nose and tartan bow, it looks at first glance like a typical teddy bear. But this huggable toy does more than dress up a bed. It comes equipped with a hidden camera to watch the baby-sitter while the baby-sitter watches the kids...
...when he spots it, he zooms straight in. Last week the House minority whip pounced on a tattered, Democratic- sponsored lobbying reform bill that was limping toward passage. He came in not for a kill, only to place a wound -- perhaps simply for pride of marksmanship. Straightening his Scotch tartan tie, the Congressman from Georgia upended his schedule, rushed from his second-floor office, stepped onto the House floor and delivered a five-minute, late-afternoon blast. He aimed at one minor and carefully buried clause, which he decried as "designed to kill pressure from back home that has been...