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...enough room to stretch their legs, though not to stand. Rescuers used narrow piping to deliver clean water, protein drinks, vitamin tablets, clothes and lighting. As the task of drilling an escape tunnel through quartzite rock dragged on, they dispatched distractions such as magazines and music players. The miners bore injuries thought to amount to stiffness and minor cuts...
...Ananta Toer, 81, acerbic leftist Indonesian novelist and dissident; in Jakarta. Detained in 1965 by the anticommunist Suharto regime, he wrote his most famous work, the Buru Quartet, while imprisoned. The series of books chronicled Indonesia's battle for independence from Dutch colonialists--who in the writer's eyes bore a striking similarity to Suharto. Freed from house arrest in 1992, he remained an outspoken critic of corrupt Indonesian government until his death...
Whatever the merits of the deal, the way it came about is one more step in the always unfolding narrative of the man whose presidency was as much about his personal weaknesses as his political deftness. For all the bonhomie with which Clinton bore the fat-man jokes thrown at him, it's hard to imagine they bounced off as easily as he made it seem they did. He was widely mocked for his oversize--and overwhite--thighs in the infamous jogging shorts, and there was no end to the snarky media remarks about his ballooning girth on the campaign...
...Times also reported that two other passages from Viswanathan’s book bore similarities to the Kinsella work...
Students in front of the Science Center Friday afternoon bore witness to the sight of 30 figures silently standing, hands interlocked, in black hoods and cloaks...