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...dealer in Zhiguli cars (a Russian-made Fiat), he never traveled without a bodyguard to ward off attacks by racketeers, competitors or any of the city's other assorted thugs. Yet such precautions couldn't prevent a remote-control car bomb from exploding as he walked out of his downtown office early this month. Berezovsky escaped with only burned hands. But his bodyguard suffered severe chest injuries that required six hours of surgery, six passersby were wounded and the driver of the car was decapitated by the blast...
...summer. It was a tradition while I was in high school to go out to the lake with a picnic basket and lots of Avon's Skin So Soft. (The mosquitos in Dallas are larger than most birds in Massachusetts). The fireworks lit up the modern skyline of downtown and reflected onto the lake. If we could successfully fend off the mosquitos and avoid the ants, we usually had a good time...
...Downtown at headquarters, the SWAT teams and crisis negotiators sat like ( everyone else, following the route of the Bronco on television. "Hey, it could be he's headed right back here to turn himself in," said one officer. "Yeah," said another, "or else he's going to blow his brains out." But the police were still listening in on the calls: "He wants to head to his house...
When Cobb County turned hostile, Greaves had a gay-friendly place nearby. That option does not always exist for gays in rural areas, as 400 marchers bore in mind in early June at Montana's first ever gay-pride parade, through the streets of downtown Missoula (pop. 45,000). "You have to understand the risks people here are taking," said Linda Gryczan, the lead plaintiff in a suit challenging the state's sodomy law. "This is different from being one in a million in New York or San Francisco. We are not anonymous anymore." Unlike gay parades in some...
...figures she works from 10 a.m. to as late as 11:30 p.m. trying to sign up janitors in Washington for the Service Employees' International Union. That's weekdays in the buildings; on weekends she calls on the janitors at home. The union now represents janitors in 45% of downtown buildings, vs. only 19% a year ago. But the gains are threatened by building owners who try to switch contracts from union to nonunion cleaning firms. To stop one owner from taking three buildings nonunion, 15 janitors and organizers staged a mock funeral, carrying a coffin symbolizing "the death...