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Even as a teenager, she kept her confidences. "Andrea would not let people get close enough," says Marlene Wark, her only good friend through Milby High School in southeast Houston. "She was prickly that way. She minded her own business and expected you to mind your own business." She was the youngest of five. Her parents, determined to vary the children's interests, would rouse them from bed at 5:30 a.m. to swim in the cold pool at the YMCA. The family had one of the largest paper routes in Houston, making deliveries in their mother Jutta's aqua...
With Noah still in diapers, Andrea was pregnant again in 1995. She gave up swimming and jogging. She saw less of her friends. "That was her choice," says her friend Marlene Wark, who lost touch with her old chum after Noah's birth. "Andrea is not a cream puff. She never struck me as the type who rolled over." Wark had seen her friendship lapse with Andrea before. In college they stopped talking for a year until Andrea warmed up again, without ever explaining what had miffed her. Andrea later told another friend that, at the time, she might have...
...Wesley Wark, a terrorism expert at the University of Toronto, says he doesn?t see a direct connection to Canada?s military role in Afghanistan. ?I don't think it is especially because of what we're doing at the moment, but more because of a sense that Canada is part of that Western camp and is equally complicit with the United States and others in what these people regard as a generalized assault on the values and security of Muslims and Islam in general.? However, he added, ?The connection that has to be worrying is that if Afghanistan...
...incident.” A court hearing was held yesterday morning in Brighton, and Huston was charged with one count of open and gross lewdness and one count of disorderly conduct. He was released without bail and ordered to return to court on April 3, said Jake M. Wark, spokesman for Boston’s District Attorney’s Office. Huston could not be reached for comment yesterday. —Staff writer Anna L. Tong can be reached at tong@fas.harvard.edu...