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...blackout. After trimming the ends of some loose wires in readiness for the house painters next day, a Manhattan housewife saw the whole city go black and gasped: "What have I done now?" A small boy in Conway, N.H., whacked a telephone pole with a stick, saw night descend, and raced home weeping to his mother. Rumors flew wildly. On the beleaguered 4:55 to Croton-on-Hudson, a New York Central conductor cried: "Some Commie's pulled the switch from here to Canada!" Sabotage was on many minds. "You can't blame me," a Cuban U.N. official assured...
...Inexplicable Mob. Once in the shop the mob had been instructed to "look at a sofa, view them with the reverence and awe that one should have for soft furniture" and say, "Oh wow, what a sofa" without uttering the letter O. "I understand they choose a shop and descend on it," Robinson said at 6:40 p.m. as the mob dispersed, also as instructed - anonymous e-mails summon these mobs to pubs where minions of the mob coordinator distribute further instructions on when and where to gather and when to leave. "I couldn't break the tradition." Inexplicable mobs...
...occasional nightmare seems natural. Far more surprising is that today, a year after the disaster, Fogle, as he has been doing each workday for the past six months, will go down into the mine. He will descend and walk through tunnels that were deathtraps, past sledgehammer marks that commemorate his crew's desperate attempts to be heard on the surface, past the date, time and initials he scrawled in chalk on a coal face the day of the disaster--7/24/02 3:55 p.m. RF. Fogle is the only one of the rescued miners who has returned...
...plot twists have been all too real for the Russian-born American citizen who took a term off from Harvard Divinity School (HDS) and was soon holding himself to a 27-day hunger strike while waiting for formal charges to descend...
...there are more than a dozen, and Otnes says "a lot of them have lost their special character." Not his, of course: from July 14 to 19, singer Dianne Reeves, bassist Dave Holland, saxophonist Michael Brecker and a slew of artists from Norway's fertile jazz scene will descend on the small town on the North Atlantic, one of Europe's most serene spots for jazz. Special character? The tiny French village of Marciac, just north of the Spanish border, has it in spades. And the Marciac Jazz Festival's director, Jean-Louis Guilhaumon, has made jazz into a true...