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...Ilya Blokhin, a surgeon heading downtown to his job in a private Moscow clinic, heard what sounded like a firecracker go off on his metro train last Friday, a commuter near him muttered, "I'll be late for work." It turned out to be far worse than that. A blast ripped through the second car of a packed train at the height of the morning rush hour. Within minutes, at least 39 people were dead and 134 injured. Wreckage and human remains were spread along 50 meters of the tunnel. "We're taking out the dead, or what's left...
...commanders promised a speedy victory; instead, a radical, fundamentalist wing of the guerrilla movement has brought the war to the heart of Russia. In the past nine months, over 200 people have died in a wave of terrorist attacks, including the bombing of commuter trains in southern Russia and blasts at a Moscow rock concert and outside a luxury hotel opposite the Kremlin. Many of the attacks are the work of suicide bombers, often women. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the latest atrocity, but Putin and his allies had no doubt as to who was to blame...
...It’s definitely come as a total, fun surprise to me,” Zappala said. “I had no idea my season would be going the way it is. Things just seem to be going right, and I’m having a blast in the process...
Then, in the second period, junior forward Nicole Corriero put home another ricocheted Ruggiero blast for the contest’s second score...
Rassmann told his story all over Iowa in the final days: about how Kerry's boat ran into a Viet Cong ambush and hit a mine, knocking Rassmann out of the vessel. Wounded in the blast, Kerry ordered the boat to race out of the cross fire, not knowing Rassmann was overboard. Two hundred yards downriver, when he discovered that the Green Beret was missing, Kerry turned the boat around and raced back to find Rassmann, still in the water, dodging bullets. His arm bleeding, Kerry reached down from the bow of the boat and pulled him in. "John didn...