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...door. He was about to cross a narrow alley when a car screeched up, blocking his way. Two men got out, thrust AK-47s into his ribs and pushed him into the floor behind the front seat. Climbing in the backseat, the men pinned him down with their feet and beat him in the torso with the butts of their guns. When he tried to speak, he got a sharp jab in the ribs. His captors emptied his pockets and took his cheap wristwatch and his belt and shoes. As the car sped away, one man put a hood over...
...vehicles. The hood was removed, the plastic bounds cut. "This is it," said one of the men, thrusting something into the breast pocket of his dishdasha and pulling him out of the trunk. "Thank God for your freedom." The car sped away before Waddah could get to his feet. He found himself just outside a well-known mosque, with 5,000 Iraqi dinars ($3.30) in his pocket. He was able to get a lift home from a passing commuter. The long ordeal was over. He was free...
...favorite of the brass section, who nevertheless resisted the urge to overblow the exciting theme. The strings and winds played the technical sections leading up to the final crescendo with a clarity that bespoke good rehearsing habits. After the symphony ended with a bang, the audience got on their feet for enthusiastic and well-deserved applause...
Rooms in the Leverett Towers typically have one large window that doesn’t open and at least one smaller window that can be cranked open. The smaller windows are each about two feet wide and four feet high...
...February 1978, one of the worst Nor’easters on record struck New England, paralyzing all of Boston under several feet of snow and shutting down Harvard. Then-president Derek C. Bok was asked why he didn’t close the University as soon as the storm hit. According to Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Bok replied, “I tried to, but I didn’t know...