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...forces made a final ferocious push. In the afternoon, the guns inside fell silent, and Alliance troops entered what was left of the smoldering school. But the resistance still was not finished; when Red Cross workers began carting away the bodies on Wednesday, three injured Pakistanis hiding in a ditch outside the building opened fire. Alliance soldiers patrolling the area swiftly dispatched them. In all, Atta's troops had taken 175 prisoners; Dostum's, 150. The Red Cross said it had recovered close to 400 bodies from the burned-out building. Workers ferried the corpses, dusted in ghostly white, into...
...tent is a waist-high from made of sticks and scraps, sacks, blankets, has no floor and no sides so that the freezing wind and dust storms find it no opposition at all. Imagine no money, no food, no firewood and no water except for a black, stinking roadside ditch that bears all the plastic wrappers, oil, excrement and soap from the city and daily carries off camp neighbors who starvation and exposure do not take away. Then imagine your reaction as two well-dressed men, one a foreigner, pull up in a taxi, stride over to your hovel...
...time expired, Hoffman launched a last-ditch bomb from midfield towards a cluster of Harvard and Penn players near the endzone. Instead of another miracle for the Quakers, sophomore linebacker Dante Balestracci deflected the ball harmlessly away at the five-yard line to seal the victory for the Crimson...
...accomplished by the man whose family owns 40% of the voting shares. The knock is that Bill Ford has neither the experience nor the mettle to make the tough decisions--on everything from plant closings to new-car programs--required to pull Ford Motor out of the ditch. Ford's much broader legion of admirers, who range from union bosses to the president of the Sierra Club, say his savvy and his rare blend of guts and grace point to success...
...time expired, Hoffman launched a last-ditch bomb from midfield towards a cluster of Harvard and Penn players near the endzone. Instead of another miracle for the Quakers, sophomore linebacker Dante Balestracci deflected the ball harmlessly away at the five-yard line to seal the victory for the Crimson...