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...police station and SHIK headquarters, where six officers were killed in the attack. They looted the bank and warehouses and raided army depots abandoned by unhappy and undisciplined soldiers. It seems that every man in town has an AK-47 and fires it with abandon. At nightfall the constant crack of machine guns and the booming of explosives tossed into the harbor are deafening. Since last week 20 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded by gunfire, and a nurse at the Vlora hospital says perhaps half of the shootings are accidental...
...silver Toyota Camry burst into flames at about 8 p.m. yesterday on Plympton Street, prompting Cambridge Police to crack the hood and windshield in order to douse the fire with water and foam...
...years or a Chopin every century. It would be better still if we could be guaranteed not just an Einstein but the Einstein. If a scientific method were developed so that the man who explained general relativity in the first half of the century could be brought back to crack the secrets of naked singularities in the second, could we resist using it? And suppose the person being replicated were researching not just abstruse questions of physics but pressing questions of medicine. Given the chance to bring back Jonas Salk, would it be moral...
...Line of Fire. But Eastwood is less interested in political corruption than in filial care; the warming, nicely played relationship of the burglar and his lawyer daughter (Laura Linney) is the source of the film's absolute power. It's a sweet pleasure to see a fatherly smile crack open that Rushmore face...
Stress fracture was the diagnosis, yet this was a unique injury--the crack went a third of the way through Kelly's tibia. But the ailment should clear itself up by the time Kelly entered Harvard, the doctors said...