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...never was the stately facade of the White House nicked by slugs fired in anger until Oct. 29, when the brooding Colorado Springs upholsterer Francisco Martin Duran, 26, pulled a Chinese-made SKS semiautomatic assault weapon from under his coat and shot 27 rounds of ammunition in short bursts across the north side of the building. Five bullets pocked the mansion's 4-ft.-thick sandstone wall, and three shattered a window and chipped the stone of the press-briefing room near the West Wing. Several bullets burrowed into trees. President Clinton, who was inside the White House watching...
...Mawr, in Gaelic; O'Connor quotes William Butler Yeats on the liner notes of her CD, and O'Riordan pays him tribute in the song Yeats' Grave. This awareness of a particular past helps distinguish their songs from the typical rootless algae of pop music. In his poem A Coat, Yeats wrote, "I made my song a coat/ Covered with embroideries/ Out of old mythologies/ From heel to throat." As modern women conscious of an Irish heritage, O'Riordan, O'Connor and Keineg are creating pop music that's stirring and new and also beautifully traditional. They wear their coats...
When I was a little kid, getting dressed up to go trick-or-treating was never a big deal--year after year, I'd put on my dad's white coat and stethoscope, take my grandfather's battered black doctor's bag in hand and metamorphose into a pre-teen physician for the evening. Sure, it wasn't that original, but I was so cute I put Doogie Howser to shame...
Decisions, decisions. At this rate, I'll probably end up resorting to the old standby white coat and stethoscope. Maybe this year, I'll sew the initials "UHS" on the breast pocket. Now that would be scary...
...Since Weld is doing so well, there might be some coat tail effects for Mitt Romney," says Paul Y. Watanabe, a professor of political science at University of Massachusetts-Boston...