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...local government thinks it knows why: too many aggressive beggars on China Beach. The Danang People's Committee has launched a campaign urging residents to rat out any panhandlers they see, even setting up a 24-hour telephone hot line for snitching. Drop a dime about a raggedy man begging for change anywhere in the city and gain a reward of 200,000 dong (about $13). "Beggars are impolite, an annoyance to visitors," says Nguyen Hung Hiep, head of the Danang Social Benefit Bureau. "We want to keep our city beautiful and civilized...
...entire American comics industry revolves around people with unfulfilled potential. Marvel Comics, the industry's biggest publisher, built its entire pantheon on the concept of schlubs turning into muscular "winners." Meanwhile the underground press got its start by appealing to the counterculture's "turn on, tune in and drop out" attitude of the time. Both narcissistic and utterly self-loathing, unhappy outcasts need never look very far in the comix rack for cartoon versions of themselves...
...currying favor with “the basketball players.” Saga number three features the “lame roommate Amanda” (also a “ho-bag”), who stealthily turns in the rooming form, foiling the confessor’s plot to drop the ho-bag’s friends from their group at the eleventh hour...
...whom have lent their support in defiance of domestic public opinion; minimizing the backlash against those in the Arab world that have offered open or discreet support; and minimizing the socio-economic trauma of the war that would complicate efforts to stabilize a post-Saddam Iraq. The plan to drop as many bombs on Iraq in the first 48 hours of the war as were dropped in the entire 1991 Gulf War is designed to smash the regime's power centers and demonstrate to the Iraqi military that the regime they're deployed to defend has already ceased functioning. Washington...
While ANC members said they do not want to lose the museums—which many say are important cultural additions to the neighborhood—they said they would drop these two items from the list in an attempt to compromise...