Word: bus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each morning, Gurney Professor of English Literature Derek A. Pearsall takes a bus to work. As it winds along Mass. Ave. and through Central Square, Pearsall chats with the people he meets...
...really see life on the bus," he says from his office on the second floor of the Barker Center. "If you are travelling in a car, you are travelling in your own social capsule...
...sciences, for example, knowing about current movies or talking to people on the bus just may not be that useful, some...
Later that week, a member of Hamas, the largest Palestinian Islamic group, nearly blew up a bus filled with the school-bound children of Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip. (An Israeli army jeep escorting the children cut him off, absorbing the blow of his 170-lb. car bomb. The bomber and one soldier died.) "[Arafat] was really panicking about it," said an official who saw him afterward. "Had it been the 40 schoolchildren, it would have been the end of the peace process as we know it." A Hamas splinter group, Islamic Jihad, made another go at that goal...
...attempt on the school bus, however, gave Arafat the cover he felt he needed to move. Arafat's forces added hundreds of detainees to the dozens it had already rounded up. In an unprecedented move, they put Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, under house arrest and cut off his phone line...