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...Coop keeps its greeting cards in three brief aisles on the second floor of its Palmer Street annex. Until ten minutes after seven, the area is virtually empty. A few customers finger through the rows of greeting cards and wander among the software racks...
April 2003, Jacksonville, Fl. Incident: A disgruntled former city employee enters City Hall Annex with a 12-gauge shotgun and extra ammunition, police say, and pulls the weapon on his former supervisor. Other workers were able to get the weapon out of the man's hands, and no one was injured. Security: No metal detecting devices were available. Security was beefed up after the incident...
Gulf War II has already seen some textbook Geneva infractions, if reports from the front are true: Iraqi fighters who reportedly quartered in a hospital were breaking Annex I of the first convention, which prohibits military activity in medical facilities. Those Iraqis who have allegedly waved white cloths and then started shooting at unwitting G.I.s are committing what the Geneva agreements quaintly call "perfidy," as are any who have tried disguising themselves as civilians. Iraqi officials accuse the U.S. of war crimes too--namely dropping bombs on civilians (a Geneva infringement only if intentional). It's hard to take such...
...afternoon in Cadiz, Pierce Brosnan stands on the rooftop of the Santa Cruz Cathedral's annex. Taking a breather from a scene in which 007 meets a Cuban MI6 operative named Raoul (Emilio Echevarria), he gazes out over the city and reflects on a franchise that has made him into a global symbol. Bond, he says, "is a leviathan--and it's even more amazing after doing all these films...
...says. Kirkland House also figured into the name. Rather than promulgating any kind of belief in states’ rights or the South’s right to break off from the Union, the three were inspired by an interest in homesteading and by their life in the Kirkland annex. The cider is a nod to their thoughts of leading a secession of the annex from the larger house. “I’m from Acton, Mass.,” Morange says, “a good revolutionary town...