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...Like sardines released from a can, we jumped out of the car. Inside the cemetery’s walls, the silence was so thick that it bounced off the rows of tombs stacked like chests of drawers (a particularly creepy image when you envision folded socks and underwear stuffed in there with the dead people). The wind whispered gently in the background—in Italian of course—and as I read the names chiseled into the tomb’s façades, Pavarotti sung a silent opera in my head. I roamed the aisles wondering what...
...Revitalized by our freakish discovery, we climed back in the car and followed my dad’s inner compass down the hill where the road emptied into a village. We bounced slowly over the cobblestones of the street, beginning to get the feeling that cars weren’t big in town. Three older Italian men in suspenders, who were tanned the color of leather from the boiling Calabrian sun, sat playing chess under the awning of a caffé while sipping espresso and motioning with their hands. Every one of them was the spitting image of my grandfather...
...politicians out there and few leaders. Even among Republicans, McCain is only presidential candidate that I would work for.” In terms of duties, Johnson both informs and organizes student supporters. And once, he even got to drive the senator around New Hampshire in the official shadow car. But student activism spans both sides of the partisan spectrum. Katherine C. Harris ’10, recently travelled to the Lone Star State, logging long hours for the Democratic contender, Senator Barack Obama, before the Texas Primary. Encouraged by her freshman seminar professor Maxine Isaacs of the Kennedy School...
...Saadi family allege they had been traveling in their vehicle in a street near the Australian embassy in Baghdad on the evening of February 26, 2005, when they were fired upon without warning. Nezar al-Saadi claims that when he stopped his car, an Australian soldier knelt down and fired four rounds into the passenger side of the vehicle, according to a statement filed in a Brisbane court last week...
...Whom and how many the U.S. attacks killed has remained uncertain, as is the toll from Monday's attack. What is known is that at least one of the three 1998 bombers - explosives designer Tariq Abdullah, a.k.a. Abu Taha al-Sudani - was killed in an attack on a speeding car by an Ethiopian helicopter gunship early last year...