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...reason. At the first lunch hour, everyone asked what it was like to go to Harvard and then made some joke about how smart I must be. Everybody was friendly, but their discomfort was obvious. I began to wonder if my forehead had grown that big red tattoo on its own accord...
...fire last month, killing 15 Bangalima combatants and, according to local human-rights workers, herding 34 suspected collaborators into local churches and gunning them down. A mother of five reported being raped by soldiers for 10 hours after she was accused of being a rebel because of a horizontal tattoo on her nose...
...more than a century the Marine Corps' traditional eagle, globe and anchor tattoo has been rippling across the biceps and backs of Leathernecks. But lately, too many recruits are festooned with adornments too tasteless for even hardy jarheads. One Marine wannabe's temple, for example, bore tattoos of bullet holes with blood oozing from them (he didn't get in). Another recruit sported a naked woman (he was barred until he had a bathing suit tattooed upon her). Recruiters are forwarding snapshots of dubious tattoos to senior officers for their approval before the wearers are allowed into the Marines...
...happens to see a red-haired woman--whose murder will be reported later that night--performing a sex act on a man whose face is in shadow. But he, she suspects, will recognize her. Sure enough, she is soon visited by N.Y.P.D. Detective James A. Malloy, who has a tattoo on his wrist similar to one she noticed on the man in the bar. "You remind me of someone," he tells...
Arnold's people and hers are still haggling over a financial settlement ("It's close to being worked out," he says). There is a blurry smudge on his chest that was once the site of a Roseanne tattoo ("Two more laser treatments and this is gone"). Their marriage, he says, "was a learning experience for me. There were mistakes I made that I don't plan to make in my second marriage...