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Vrionis, perhaps reminded of last year's game, began to play the role of enforcer, tossing Big Red players around like firewood and finally earned a yellow card. But it paid off, as Cornell's opportunities were fairly limited in the second half...
...churn houses into rubble, families seek shelter in the ruins of abandoned neighborhoods, many of which contain minefields. Children are especially vulnerable, since they are sent to scavenge. Farhad, a boy of 10, offers a typical story: "Early in the morning, after studying in the mosque, I went for firewood. Because we are poor, we can't buy wood. I didn't know there are minefields. When I opened my eyes, I was in the hospital without my legs." The simplest impulse is perilous. Rahmat Khan, a school watchman, describes how a breeze blew his hat across a playground...
...jobs were sometimes dangerous. Until shewas eight months pregnant, Judy Carter wouldshimmy up trees to saw off the tops with achainsaw and sell them for firewood. Even as achild, Tracey was intensely aware of beingdifferent from the rest of the community...
...ghost town. Elsewhere too, Zapatistas were neither fighting nor giving up but melting away into the jungle, sometimes with families in tow. As a car carrying two journalists approached the village of Oventik, 20 men who had been hoeing at the ground ran into their huts, grabbed clothes, firewood and babies and, with their women, fled into the brush. Within minutes most of the 32 families had disappeared without a trace. A few young men who stayed behind explained that the inhabitants had pulled the same vanishing act four times previously when soldiers appeared...
Serbs allowed two trucks carrying construction materials and firewood to enter Sarajevo today. U.N. officials said that the cooperation, however limited, with international efforts to aid the devastated city signals that a month-old truce in Bosnia is holding. The concession by the Serbs accompanies a general lessening of armed conflicts in the area following the New Year's Eve ceasefire declaration. "We'll see more humanitarian aid entering the city," promised Enrique Aguilar, the chief U.N. civil affairs officer...