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...KAFKA's short stories, an explorer arrives in a small, poor, and remote country, garrisoned by soldiers who wear uniforms that are much too hot but that serve as reminders of a faraway home. The ruler of this country has invented an ingenious method of punishment, a sort of harrow that cuts the text of a broken law into the lawbreaker's flesh. The script is so intricate that it takes a full twelve hours before the lawbreaker is dead...
APRIL 7, 1975. Formal opening of the new Orange Line extension. Surely an event not to be missed. Already, the Harvard Square system maps show stops like "Wellington" and "Oak Grove" in that nether world north of North Station. Images conjured up of faraway, exotic places. Never rode the Orange Line before (has anyone?); seems like the perfect time to give...
...gasoline and fuel rationing program, like other rationing programs during the war, was handled by 5,400 local rationing boards manned by some 750,000 unpaid volunteers. It was not faraway bureaucrats, but more often your neighbors and friends who, according to rules set down by Washington, made the final decisions on allotments based on individual needs and the importance of the applicants' work to the war effort...
...addition to heavy border fighting, there was a bizarre but chillingly familiar encounter last week in faraway Paris. An El Al 707 Boeing jet taxiing slowly down an Orly Airport runway toward a takeoff for New York was apparently attacked by two men carrying...
...speculated that the issue might be decided by the 2.5% of the voters who reside in France's overseas departments and territories, raising the bizarre possibility that a matter of crucial importance to all of Europe as well as France could turn on the whims of islanders in faraway Martinique or Tahiti...