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...awakened by screams at 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday," Scott F. Kocher said. "It seems a group of Lampoon members thought it would be funny to wake us up by screaming 'fire' and banging on windows. I live on the courtyard side of the building, so they had to work pretty hard to wake...
...excited to be going somewhere in a car." But the adventure soon became a nightmare. Put to work in the home of a relatively wealthy Beninese woman who lives in the Ivory Coast's bustling commercial capital, Zinwue now rises at 6 a.m. to sweep the house and courtyard, wash dishes and clean out the garbage cans. She spends the rest of the day at a local market selling trinkets and hair accessories at her boss's stall. She is 10 years...
...makes her way through the bombed-out courtyard with the water pump in the middle - Grozny has no running water and no electricity - to the end of the block, then turns left toward the clinic, which stands in a patch of open ground. There she passes a fresh grave amid the garbage. It contains two bodies, burned beyond recognition, that locals discovered recently in the grounds of a nearby kindergarten. The residents buried them there and surmise they were killed during a military raid. No one was surprised by the discovery: as another resident of the courtyard, a pretty teenager...
...nobody said anything to the school authorities. At 9:20 a.m. on Monday, Williams took out a .22 revolver--secreted either in his trousers or in his yellow backpack--in the boys' bathroom of the school and started firing, first into the room and then into an adjacent courtyard. Many students initially thought it was fireworks and moved toward the popping sounds until they saw others falling wounded to the ground...
...leave when it is 9:06." Says Turk: "We usually never leave the Jack until 9:15." Analisha Welbaum saw Williams there on her way to class and said he was "really calm; he wasn't shaking; he wasn't stuttering." Minutes later, she was walking across the school courtyard when she heard gunshots. "I looked down the hallway and saw him--he was about 100 feet away--and he turned and looked me in the eye. Then he turned around and shot some others...