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...security around most polling stations, with U.S. forces in reserve to deal with any contingencies. The government has adopted draconian measures to create a secure environment, including curfews and banning all unauthorized vehicles from the roads in order to deny insurgents freedom of movement. The borders and Baghdad's airport will also be closed for three days. But in areas where would-be voters are fearful of insurgent attacks, the bloody track record of the past three months may be enough to deter them from going out to test the effectiveness of the new security measures...
Many students had their plans to leave for intersession interrupted as Logan Airport closed until 11 a.m., and several airlines cancelled and delayed flights into the afternoon...
...conductor - because he'd never had to pay before. Not in Tula, 165 km south of Moscow, where more than 40 such assaults on bus and tram conductors were recorded in just three days. Not in Khimki on the outskirts of Moscow, where several thousand travelers heading for the airport missed their flights because a thousand furious pensioners blocked the highway for three hours. And certainly not in St. Petersburg on Saturday, where 10,000 brought downtown traffic to a standstill as Putin was paying a visit to his native city. Some waved signs demanding that he resign. What provoked...
...homecoming more fitting for royalty or a rock star than a monk. The 1,000 or more devotees who waited in the chilly dawn at Hanoi's Noi Bai Airport clutched bouquets of flowers, sang songs, and jostled for a better view. For a bunch of Buddhists, they were pushy: when Thich Nhat Hanh finally stepped out of immigration, they surged forward with a force that crushed people against doors and tore sandals, hats and gloves off dozens of others. "I touched him! I touched him!" shouted one woman, who then burst into tears...
...ghosts that haunt Shea Stadium do not emerge from opponents of Octobers past, but rather from brash investments that didn’t exactly work out. If you listen carefully and try to block out the din of airplanes flying overhead from LaGuardia Airport, you can make out the whispers of Mo Vaughn, Roberto Alomar, Shawn Estes, Pedro Astacio and Jeromy Burnitz, laughing as they count their money...