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There is a stark simplicity to life in Amira Puzic's war-scarred apartment building in the northern Sarajevo neighborhood of Ciglane. At dusk the 18 families there prepare for another night of shelling by bedding down on couches and mattresses crammed onto landings of the central concrete stairwell. By day, when the barrage eases, they forage for food. But hunger has become a secondary consideration in the face of the almost constant bombardment, now well into its fourth month, by Serb forces firing from the surrounding hillsides. All day, every day, the talk in the building hallways...
...bais by the Pygmies, that he failed to find in 1990. Fay is certain that the bais are elephant strongholds. According to maps drawn from aerial reconnaissance, we have to cross at least 15 km of dry land before reaching the next watershed. Unless we find a stream by dusk, we face a waterless night after a full day's hike. Ndokanda sets an uncharacteristically slow pace, so Fay decides to shame him by taking the lead. As we set off ahead, he remarks, "The one thing Pygmies can't stand is for a white guy to lead...
...jury's decision was influenced, however subconsciously, by stereotypical fears of black crime, events quickly conspired to intensify that dread. A crowd of protesters, mainly black, outraged by the acquittals, gathered before dusk at L.A. police headquarters. Some tried to storm the doors; others sheared off toward nearby city hall, where Mayor Tom Bradley had taken up a command post in the basement. A flag was set on fire; a booth in a parking lot sprouted flames. Under the night sky, patches of Los Angeles began to burn...
...addition, tents for will be set up outside the Science Center, and activities will be going on from noon until dusk...
...Leverett House performance, the real thing takes place in the Lowell dinning hall. This year's Lowell House Opera production aims, according to the program notes, to uncover "the plethora of possibilities in the opera...without trying to create a singular impression," while simultaneously offering "a dawn to dusk retrospective of Western civilization...