Word: boying
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...fires off rounds from his assault rifle. Together the legendary 12-year-old Htoo twins control "God's Army," a nominally Christian force of 200 youthful Karen tribesmen in the mountainous rain forest of Burma (now known as Myanmar). The army's tots-to-teens fighters revere their boy leaders as bulletproof messiahs...
...Television News crew, invited in last December, found that most of the soldiers surrounding the twins were barely in their teens. The reality of war seemed to be beyond their grasp. The twins played with guns as if they were toys: after Johnny fired some shots, another boy put a papaya on his head as if vamping a part in William Tell. The twins said they had lost count of how many Burmese they had killed. Said Luther, the more serious of the two, to the A.P. crew: "I have never cried. Why would...
...whose home the meeting would take place. They demanded that Jeanne O'Laughlin, a Dominican sister and president of Miami's Barry University, prove there were no trapdoors in her house from which agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service could jump out to seize the boy. Then when the grandmothers landed in Miami, their Cuban handlers kept them on the tarmac for an hour to deliver words of warning. Beware, they told the 51-year-old matriarchs: Miami's Cuban exiles may try to hurt...
...with and hugging their six-year-old grandson. But they might as well have grabbed one of his arms and not let go: this family gathering was a diplomatic tug-of-war. When it ended, the abuelas, Mariela Quintana and Raquel Rodriguez, said Elian had seemed a "completely different boy." The meeting hardened their resolve to take him home. "I feel angry and impotent," a tearful Rodriguez told TIME. "What is happening is inhuman." But Elian's Miami clan had its own spin. Marisleysis Gonzalez, 21, a cousin who seems to portray herself as Elian's new mom, crowed...
...middle is Elian, the little boy plucked from the Atlantic on Thanksgiving Day after the boat carrying him, his mother and 12 others capsized on its way to the U.S. Elian, one of three survivors, floated for two days on an inner tube. The Cubans insist he belongs with his only living parent, his father Juan Miguel Gonzalez, 31. The Cuban Americans say Elian should be allowed to live with the freedom his mother wanted...