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...same place Cole frequented as a Columbia student during the early 1980s. Today, bridge players step out of the elevator to find a three-foot-high cardboard figure of the Queen of Hearts. The queen is pointing at an image of the White Rabbit, mounted 10 feet away on the same wall...
...kiosk's three panels was charred, exposing a cardboard interior. Many of the posters showed signs of the flames...
...cholera tent in Goma, Edithe Nyirarukundo, 34, lies on soiled cardboard. Back in Kigali she had been a secretary at the Ministry of Labor. She lost touch with her husband and three children in the war. Now she's recuperating, she says, from the cholera. "I want to go home. I don't understand why we can't settle things in a country as small as ours." Edithe lays her head on the mattress of her friend Claudette Ruhumuliza, 27, a teacher. "I think I'm going to die soon," Claudette says, staring at her husband Prosper. Once they...
...concerned shareholders camped outside MMM's building, waiting, mostly in vain, for the company to redeem their certificates. Police and Interior Ministry troops stood guard to intimidate potential troublemakers. There weren't many. The few lucky enough to exchange their shares for cash stumbled out of the building, with cardboard boxes and plastic bags bulging with rubles, to shouts from the assembled crowd: "Is there any money left?" A few yelled imprecations on Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and central bank chairman Viktor Gerashenko, but many were simply philosophical. Mira, a chemistry researcher who earns 60,000 rubles...
...sets in the middle price range for compact discs, the savvy buyer can pick up the Brahms cycle for less than $35 dollars in the coupon-saturated Square. However, one might be disappointed to discover Philip's unorthodox packaging scheme--the discs are stored in TyvekTM sleeves within cardboard boxes, rather than in the traditional jewel-box trappings. But external aesthetics aside, what of the music itself...