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...truth, as that poet understood it, did indeed explode. Not in a sudden detonation but in a sustained blast that lasted more than a quarter-century. The reverberations of Pope John Paul II's life and pontificate, the third longest in history, resounded through every nation on earth. They did their part to topple a superpower, helping free hundreds of millions of people. They reaffirmed the Roman Catholic message of salvation to millions more and may even have introduced it in some few parts of the world where it had not yet penetrated. And they boomed through the poet...
Ashley Lajeunesse was doing math homework in study hall when she heard the first shotgun blast. She thought it was a student dropping a stack of textbooks. Then came another bang. Then another. The other students in the room looked up in sudden, knowing panic. No one could speak. The teacher in charge, Neva Rogers, walked to the door, turned the lock and shut off the lights. She too sensed what was happening. A gunman was in the school, and he was heading their...
Online, he also created two animated shorts. One shows a young man strangled by a demented clown. The other, "Target Practice," cuts quickly from a man decapitated by a gun blast, to a standing figure and a man on a park bench who are both shot through the chest, to a police car flipping over after a grenade is lobbed into it, to a Klansman and his pointy hood scalped by another shot, and finally to the marksman stuffing the muzzle of a pistol into his mouth, squeezing the trigger and turning the screen crimson. The credits roll, and Weise...
Mann got things started Saturday with his first home run of the season—a third-inning three-run blast following a Griff Jenkins RBI single—and Wilson delivered four RBI in a 3-for-5 breakout performance...
...hall, Sergeant Chris Chilles, 28, a California National Guardsman, says he was standing in the gun turret of his Humvee near Mosul a few mornings before, thinking about the Philadelphia cheesesteak he would have for lunch, when a roadside bomb exploded in front of his vehicle. The massive blast ripped through the Humvee, throwing Chilles to the floor. "It was like a plank hit me across the back," he says. The shrapnel tore two holes in his lower back and ripped through his abdomen, narrowly missing his vital organs - a "miracle shot," says Chilles. Two years have passed since...