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...lives outside Washington. "Mom was a classical pianist, artistic and whimsical. She led the way for Steven to be as creative as he wanted to be. We were bohemians growing up in suburbia. And everything was centered on Steven. When he was babysitting for us he'd resort to creative torture. One time he came into the bedroom with his face wrapped in toilet paper like a mummy. He peeled off the paper layer by layer and threw it at us. He was a delight, but a terror. And we kept coming back for more...
...thriving dental practice with roughly 40% of his patients from the U.S. Married to an American, he has houses in both Matamoros and Brownsville, and estimates that half his affluent neighbors in El Jardin (the Garden) section of Matamoros have second homes in either Brownsville or the nearby Texas resort of South Padre Island...
last year, Travel Writer Jan Morris said her valedictory to cities. "I may go upstream," she wrote airily, "or strike into the mountains." Yet here she is on the shadowy streets of a once grand Mediterranean trading and resort metropolis, "a little compendium of the world's experience, historically, aesthetically, even perhaps spiritually...
...Brazilian police discovered other documents apparently belonging to Mengele. The Bosserts said that they had first been introduced to Mengele in 1970 by an Austrian, Wolfgang Gerhard; that the doctor of Auschwitz eventually took the name and identity papers of Gerhard; and that after Mengele drowned at the beach resort of Bertioga in 1979, they buried him at Embu, 20 miles south of Sao Paulo. After the body was exhumed, Superintendent Tuma declared that his men had almost certainly located the world's most wanted...
...February 1979, according to the statements, the couple invited their friend for a holiday at Bertioga, a coastal resort 70 miles east of Sao Paulo. While swimming in the sea, the depositions assert, Mengele, who by then was 67, drowned after suffering a stroke. The Bosserts said that they decided to bury him at the Embu cemetery in a family plot owned by the real Gerhard, who had buried his mother there in 1961. That same year, Wolfram Bossert told the police, "Rolf Mengele came to talk to me, and I handed over (his father's) diaries, documents and personal...