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Trapped. It was an ugly, bloody little war at that. One day last week, seeking to root the Red Wolves out of their mountain redoubts, 120 British paratroopers attacked the mud-walled town of El Naqiil at dawn with fixed bayonets. The rebels scampered up the slopes, dug in, and with deadly sniper fire pinned the paratroopers to the ground in shimmering heat. Twelve hours later, at dusk, the British finally broke out of the trap and routed the rebels, killing twelve. Two Britons died...
...maybe. And there's more where he came from. Crazy? Let's dance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When a trio known as the Del-Aires isn't pushing that Big Beat, the big beasts claim several dozen victims. "Sounds like some body big walkin' in the mud," says one terrified chick. Some 20 others come to grief at a slumber party when they leave the front door ajar, expecting the boys from the nearby frat house to stage a raid. Horror's best song: You Are Not a Summer Love...
...young men like himself were being turned into cannon fodder by a variety of self-proclaimed generals and reformers. He deserted and went home. There he led the life of a poor farmer, struggling to grow corn on a rented field a good two hours' walk from his mud-walled house. He took women where he found them, ran his home with paternalistic authoritarianism. But he commanded enough local respect to become a political figure of sorts, first as a leader of his barrio, later as a town councilman, eventually as a judge...
Writing, says David Cornwell, 32, who authored The Spy Who Came in from the Cold under the pen name of John Le Carré, "is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie." For all that, Cornwell-Le Carré has seen too many mud pies that are the only pies some people have. And to combat such poverty, he proposes "a scheme called 'Write for Life.' " The idea is to get well-known writers to donate their royalties from a specific new book to a fund that...
Hotshot Princeton teams have had a little trouble winning in Cambridge this year. The Tiger football team drowned in the mud last fall, and Bill Bradley and company got swamped on the basketball floor at the I.A.B. in February...