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...morning that spring, roughly 50 alliance demonstrators gathered at the Mather and Dunster House dining halls, chanting “we want it hot.” They then blew whistles and clashed cymbals as they marched toward University Hall and the old Union dining hall in protest of Fox’s decision...
...Last year, a student was giving a speech and he went to give the punch line but we blew a fuse on the [sound] panel. Nobody heard it!” says Remeika. “It happens—what...
Schnebel, a sophomore and member of the student government, read the news in the local paper. "It blew my mind," she says. "I couldn't imagine why they would take away something that is legal in the U.S." Her objection "didn't have anything to do with the issue of abortion," she says. "It was the fact that a group that has so much power, our board of visitors, made a decision that directly affects the health and safety of the students, and they didn't ask us, and that's just not fair...
...Riyadh. He was watching an Antonio Banderas thriller, curled up on the sofa in his home in al-Jadawel, a gated town-house complex in the Saudi Arabian capital. Suddenly the lights died, and the TV zapped off. Schlageter saw a flash and felt a thundering explosion that blew out all his windows. "I grabbed my cell phone, went upstairs to a secure room, called the U.S. embassy and told them we were under attack," he says. A vehicle loaded with explosives had blown up at the gates of the compound...
...lend a hand. Throughout the 1990s Yugoslav contractors defied U.N. sanctions and did business in Iraq: an outfit named Yugoimport built the Baath Party headquarters and at least five underground bunkers for Saddam Hussein. It also sold arms. That trade was finally shut down last year, after the U.S. blew the whistle and the recently assassinated Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic came clean...