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...landing at Baghdad International Airport after apparently being struck by a surface-to-air missile, the first plane to be hit since major combat operations ended in May. The weekend's assaults came a day after guerrillas co-ordinated a series of attacks in Baghdad using rockets mounted on donkey carts. At least two civilians were injured in several strikes on the Palestine and Sheraton hotels - the heavily-guarded homes to Western journalists and civil defense contractors. A similar attack aiming as many as 10 missiles at Iraq's Oil Ministry left part of the complex ablaze. Other makeshift explosive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 11/23/2003 | See Source »

...most of the lavish realities of Latin America. After reading his abundant new memoir, Living to Tell the Tale (Knopf; 484 pages), you'll be inclined to agree. In a warm but largely matter-of-fact style, he recalls the headless man who rode past one day on a donkey, killed by a machete in a settling of accounts on the nearby banana plantation. Then there was the fishing town full of men mutilated because they had been too slow to throw the sticks of dynamite they used to stun the fish. Or the first time he saw the ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Insistence Of Memory | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

Burning Spear has had much longer to craft his following and hone his ample talent. He got his start in 1969 when he ran into Bob Marley carrying “a donkey and some buckets and a fork, and cutlass and plants...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reggae Artist Burning Spear Rocks the Roxy | 10/31/2003 | See Source »

...times, Sharpton was as critical of the Democratic leadership—whom he called “elephants in donkey jackets”—as he was of Republicans...

Author: By Alex L. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sharpton Talks Tough Game | 10/28/2003 | See Source »

Still, it's a start. And the $10 billion-a-year gaming industry hopes the sport will catch on as a way to spark more interest and sell even more titles. Can overbearing parents reliving their Donkey Kong glory days through their kids be far behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Playing For Keeps | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

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