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...ARMY HELICOPTER CAME IN over the marketplace at noon one day last month. Machine-gun fire ripped from the sky, pounding into the dirt, ricocheting off roofs and sending hundreds of Hutu men, women and children scattering for cover under rickety stalls. Suzanne Nyahimana, 45, was hit almost immediately, her forearm shattered. Frantically rounding up her five children--her husband had been killed in fighting several months earlier--she fled with them from the northwestern Burundian village of Nyabitaka into the hills, eventually crossing the Rusizi River to a refugee camp in neighboring Zaire. "I will never go back," Nyahimana...
...similar slam against Dole in 1988. The Gramm ad, which (unfairly) characterizes Dole as willing to settle for an unbalanced budget, will air immediately in South Carolina, which Gramm has touted as a must-win state. First rule of negative advertising: it also hurts the one dishing the dirt. Gramm is delaying using this ad in New Hampshire, where his negatives are already uncomfortably high. He'll wait until the homestretch...
...reminder that the region has witnessed a very special sort of history. For nearly 3 billion Jews, Christians and Muslims, this is the Holy Land, the place where the Bible and Koran say Jesus and Abraham and King David and King Solomon all walked the earth. Each spadeful of dirt an archaeologist turns up could yield evidence about how, and even whether, these and other biblical figures actually lived. As Hannukah and Christmas approach, believers around the world are attuned more than ever to the significance of archaeological finds of the past century, and especially the past few years...
...appearing on television amidst such hoopla--newspapers covered it like it was as anticipated as Windows 95--Diana, following Charles's own television appearances, had toppled the monarchy off its already wobbly knees and onto the ground, into the dirt with the rest of the adulterous, fetishist, omnivorous masses. Nothing is sacred anymore...
...transept, workers uncovered shiny white slabs inscribed with the names of the Union dead, also covered by years of dirt...