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...Last week, the countries went back to the brink. Shortly before dawn on Tuesday, three men in army uniforms, who were later identified as Pakistani citizens, boarded a Himachal Roadways passenger bus on its way to Jammu, winter capital of India's Jammu and Kashmir state. On board for 15 minutes, the men asked to be dropped off near an army barracks. After the bus had stopped, the men ordered the sleepy passengers to the back of the vehicle and opened fire. They tossed a grenade into the bus full of screaming passengers, killing three women, two children...
...others. This will doubtless come as disappointing surprise to the merry band in Quincy 616 and 613 (sorry, Alex and Tuttle and Praveen and Brian and Andy and Josh and Allen) and perhaps to others of significance (forgive me, Abby). But standards must be upheld, even when on the brink of the apocalypse...
...baiting a fishhook, Van der Graaf lived in the small town of Harderwijk with his wife and three-month-old baby. "He was not given to jokes or eccentricities," says Caroline Hoogendijk, a director of the Dutch Veganism Association who worked closely with Van der Graaf. Wien van den Brink, head of a farmer's activist group from nearby Putten op de Veluwe and a candidate on Fortuyn's list, was left unimpressed in his frequent dealings with Van der Graaf. "You had the impression that he lived in his own world and didn't expect anyone outside...
...split the Ivy title and Cornell swept Harvard in a best-of-three NCAA playoff. Harvard didn’t compete in ECACs in 1999 due to its injuries. That year, Ivy Player of the Year Chelsea Thoke ’01 nearly single-handedly elevated Harvard to the brink of an Ivy title by pitching effectively in both ends of every doubleheader down the stretch...
...FROM THE TIME ARCHIVE Streets Red With Blood To The Brink Inside the Hurricane Stories Since...