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...They threw rocks and bricks at us. Then they opened fire. We cowered for safety and ran away, jumping over roofs of other houses. We eventually found sanctuary in a church." She shows the remains of her Urdu-language Bible: "Look at our holy book. The pages are all burnt. Is this not desecration?" (See pictures of the ethnic rivalries beneath the surface of Pakistan...
...Democrats and Republicans, who are chomping at the bit to get a definite step-down date from her. (Special elections in Texas are always a roll of the dice; Hutchison herself first won election to the Senate via one.) Democratic activist Karl-Thomas Musselman blogged on the Austin-based Burnt Orange Report after Wednesday's confusing news, "Sen. Hutchison continued toying with our emotions this afternoon with a clarification of her comments earlier today, which of course, coming from Hutchison means that she's actually about to make things more confusing and ridiculous than they were before." (Read "A Brief...
...Simon's chief aide Judy (Lina Mckee), seeing baby-faced college grads in high positions, notes that "They're all kids in Washington. It's like Bugsy Malone, but with real guns." Malcolm is less subtle. Recalling Britain's vanished might, Malcolm tells one of the American brats, "We burnt this tight-assed city to the ground in 1814, and I'm all for doin' it again...
...Right now he presides over the stability of squalor. Burnt cars and blown-out windows litter the outskirts of Tskhinvali, South Ossetia's largest town and self-styled capital. Kokoity's government received 10 billion rubles - $324 million at the current exchange rate - from Moscow to reverse the damage wrought by the five-day war. But residents have seen little evidence of any such spending. (See pictures of Russia's war with Georgia...
...Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities, McCarthy travels twice a week to Dorchester, Mass. to run a college humanities course for low-income adults. He is also the founding director and leader of the yearly alternative spring break trip to the South that reconstructs black churches burnt down in racially motivated arsons...