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...young and scared to be going over," says Rachael Mays of the Sleeping Dragon tattoo parlor. "They come in for their meat tags. You know, dog tags for the skin. Their name, rank, serial number, religion, blood type and gas-mask size. They want 'em in case they're blown in half. Then at least some part of them can come back to their folks...
...many ways a character in this book,” Cohen says, holding up a blown-up black and white photograph from her personal album. Such photographs appearing throughout the book provide a visual orientation to the era. Visuals like advertisements and billboards were crucial contributors to the mass consumption of the post-war decades, Cohen says...
...hotel, and warnings of possible further terrorist actions. And, up to opening day, the English and Australian teams were still discussing the possibility of refusing to play in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe has become an international pariah because of his repressive regime. Government officials protest that Britain has blown everything out of proportion. "Cricket is a game. Every game, every sport, should be divorced from politics," says Thompson Tsodzo, permanent secretary at the Zimbabwe Ministry of Education, Sport and Culture. "People are coming to play a game. Is England afraid of being beaten by us?" But English players, whose...
That attacking mentality nearly paid off in the first period. Captain Dominic Moore’s tap-in following a scramble in front of the Brown net was waved off when referee Dan Murphy ruled the whistle had already blown, much to the chagrin of Mazzoleni...
BOTTOM LINES "You have blown the whistle for the end of playtime, but you have yet to convince France it should get back to work." ERNEST-ANTOINE SEILLIERE, chairman of the French employers' organization, on the government's economic reforms...