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...thing. He saw me looking at him and jumped there." He points to a roof three houses away. Did he jump or run? asks the police chief. Navesh falters and summons his sister-in-law, who says she got a better glimpse. "It looked like someone in a black burka (the head-to-toe garment worn by some Muslim women). It flew across to the other roof." Gogia frowns. Other residents of the house push forward with their description. "I looked up and saw this black thing with shining red eyes on the roof. When it saw me it jumped...
...this season on a positive note. Our last three losses have been against some of the best teams in the country." DARTMOUTH, 17-5 at Chase Field, Hanover N.H. Dartmouth 10 7 -- 17 Harvard 2 3 -- 5 G: Dart.--Graw (6), Weitzel (5), Meritt (2), Moulin, Fenwick, Burka Zimmer; Harvard--Hussey (2), Asano, Lee. A: Dart.--Fenwick (4), Frazier (3), Burka (2), Weitzel, Zimmer; Harvard--None. S: Dart.--7; Harvard...
...avid reader of PEOPLE, but until a few weeks ago, I didn't know what Mavis Leno looked like. The wife of Jay Leno is an aggressive homebody, and for all the outside world knew of her, she might as well have been wrapped in a burka, the full-body shroud Afghan women are forced to wear. But she's emerged to give voice to those very women. "Silence," she says, "is killing" the women of Afghanistan, where the Taliban, an extreme faction of mujahedin, largely composed of Lord of the Flies-like boy soldiers, swept to power...
...businesses anxious not to miss the Internet boat but still profoundly skeptical. If the ads don't generate product sales, they could quickly dry up. "A lot of advertisers lined up to throw money at this stuff because they were caught in the hysteria about the Web," says Karen Burka, an electronic-marketing analyst at media consultant SIMBA Information. "But now they want to know how you make money selling a $1.59 bottle of dish detergent on the World Wide Web." There may be better ways to make 'zines pay. Kyle Shannon, who started Urban Desires with some friends...
...truck with a group of mujahedin. Stanley crawled into a burlap bag and hid among sacks filled with wheat. "On the one hand, I was scared," she recalls. "On the other hand, I felt absurd." On the way back, Stanley rode openly with the rebels, but dressed in a burka, a head-to-toe Muslim garment. All went smoothly until a border policeman hitched a ride. He sat inches from our costumed journalists for a half-hour trip that seemed like an eternity. "He didn't suspect a thing," says Nachtwey. "Otherwise we would have gone to jail...