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Behind the scenes, the jostling has begun. Late Thursday night, as bulldozers cleared the courtyard of Arafat's compound of the concrete-filled oil drums and wrecked cars dumped there to prevent Israeli special forces from landing a helicopter to kidnap or kill Arafat, members of the P.L.O. Executive Committee met to discuss who would assume leadership duties while Arafat was abroad. No leader wanted to appear to be jumping into Arafat's shoes before he was dead, but P.L.O. chiefs told TIME they decided that in the absence of Arafat, Secretary-General of the P.L.O. Executive Committee, Mahmoud Abbas...
...Muslim villagers?men, women and children?gathered in a small park across the road from the police station. They had come to demand freedom for six men arrested for allegedly providing arms to Islamic separatist fighters. But the authorities were in no mood to oblige. In the station courtyard stood hundreds of heavily armed police and soldiers brought in to deal with the protest, their weapons drawn. At either end of the road were parked tanks and military trucks. Behind was the Tak Bai river. "It was frightening," recalls one of the protesters, Ai (not her real name...
...feeling of crowding derives not just from an awareness of tight quarters—a shot of Vera’s daughter Ethel (Alex Kelly) barely folding herself into her closet of a bedroom or a glimpse of the apartment building’s courtyard, where rusty bikes huddle, fighting for space under a thin metal roof—or from the contrast between this and the spaciousness of the homes Vera cleans. An abiding atmosphere of tension contributes equally. Relations with Vera’s in-laws are clearly strained, and the audience’s knowledge that Vera?...
...which team had scored the last point; peering intently at the television, one of my roommates said, “Wait—there are Asian baseball players?” When the game ended, we threw open the windows and listened to the shouts echoing across the Winthrop courtyard. “Whoo,” we said, perfunctorily...
Whether striding through the Eliot courtyard or getting a cone of “fro-yo” in the dining hall, the enormous Dutch athletes have attracted much attention...