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...first time a major trend began on the obituary pages. Last year's fashion spreads offered up the usual chaos: butt-high skirts, little-girl looks, underwear as outerwear, fake furs, fake feathers, fake everything. But the death of Audrey Hepburn and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis inspired exhilaratingly lovely retrospectives, in magazines and on television, that lasted for weeks. These women always managed to be both sexy and classy-at a grand ball, on horseback, impersonating royalty or playing First Lady to the chandeliers. They had the combination of vitality, faultless grooming and alluring clothes that add up to glamour...
Until 12:30 p.m. the next day, that is, when one of the gunmen entered the Emil Emilios Restaurant and Bakeshop and shot dead a Philippine army major as he ate lunch. For the next 21Ú2 hours, the fake soldiers made Ipil a hell on earth. They gunned down men, women and children, plundered the town's seven banks and took money from shops. "They were killing people like they do this every day," said a survivor, Loyita de los Reyes. Rogelio Villafuerte, a public-works engineer, said, "They came to town ready to start...
Although all of the study's respondents said alcohol was easy to obtain at local bars with fake identification,Wechsler said colleges could still limit theeffects of binge drinking on campus...
...first in Kumamoto, then Tokyo and finally in a rented room in Funabashi. He married a college student, Tomoko Ishii, in 1978, then opened an apothecary specializing in traditional Chinese medicaments. A turning point in his life appears to have occurred in 1982, when he was arrested for selling fake cures. Authorities detained him for 20 days and fined him 200,000 yen--about $800 at that time. The business went bankrupt, and Asahara was reputedly shattered by the incident. Out of shame at what neighbors thought, for some time afterward he and his wife only left their home...
Souljah's prose is simple and straight-forward, deceptively so. Her staunch and unchanging opinions, particularly regarding her singular and romanticized vision of race, read like the ghetto girl's "perfume" and "fake smiles." The book's most severe limitation is that it admits no evolution of thought, and never confesses to any wrong answers...