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...country's largest Christian congregation at the time, was destroyed; more than two-thirds of the congregation died as a result of the bombing. "It was as if a giant had crushed it," says Takako Yoshida, then 18, who saw one of the church's two mammoth bell towers lying in the river below as she was being carried out on a stretcher three days later...
...this account, Abu-Jamal shot Faulkner in the back. When the policeman returned fire, hitting Abu-Jamal in the chest, the journalist straddled the officer's body and fired four more shots. At the 1982 trial, prosecutors produced three eyewitnesses, ballistics evidence and two witnesses, including police officer Gary Bell, Faulkner's best friend, who testified that at the hospital after the shooting, they heard Abu-Jamal say, "I shot the motherf____, and I hope he dies...
Perhaps my paranoia was a result of my transition to college life. In high school, the bell would ring and a dozen of my friends would convene over our federally subsidized lasagna to have deep discussions about which teachers wore a hair piece. It's pretty hard to eat alone when there are only 200 people in your graduating class. Here, 1,600 people on different schedules rush in and out of the Union three times a day. Running into someone you know is improbable unless you have an elaborate system of e-mail and phone messages to coordinate...
Competition is also beginning to pit Bell vs. Bell. U.S. West, based in Englewood, Colorado, last year acquired two cable-TV systems that serve 500,000 homes in Atlanta; in addition to cable programs, U.S. West will use the systems to offer local phone service and thereby steal customers away from BellSouth...
...Bells attribute the delays to less sinister causes. U.S. West blames any slowness in providing lines on the robust growth of the Rocky Mountain region. In addition, the loss of lucrative corporate clients to the upstarts could force the Bells to jack up rates for less profitable residential service. Says Jamie DePeau, a spokesperson for NYNEX, the Baby Bell in the Northeast: "Competitors are saying, 'Let us skim off your best customers, and you guys get stuck with people who don't make any calls...