Word: gatherered
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...tires. But the shelling continued, and one bleak November morning in 1993 the arch finally gave way, disappearing beneath the green waters below. "We all cried," says Cisic. Now he and fellow Mostar residents, with funding from the international community, have begun the task of bringing it back. Residents gathered last month to watch craftsmen shape the first stone. Cisic estimates reconstruction will require 18 months to complete. Other wounds will take longer to heal. Muslims and Croats still lead separate lives in Mostar, but the project does at least represent a small ray of hope. Emir Balic...
...plenty of dangerous characters still slip by. Two years ago, South Carolina passed a law requiring registration and background checks of professional and volunteer firefighters. Delaware already requires screening for ambulance drivers and a similar rule for firefighters is likely to follow. This week, delegates from 25 states will gather in New York City for the annual meeting of the NASFM, during which the topic of screening is expected to be widely discussed. "We're trying to develop some guidelines," says association attorney Tony Walker. Until that happens, fire marshals and local departments will have to continue warily policing their...
...those prospective students who attended Wednesday’s presentation, Miller encouraged them to stop by the admissions office to gather more information, and to attend one of the office’s daily information session about the College...
...opportunity to meet hundreds of people from all walks of life. I took a two-week leave from the congressional campaign to help an organization trying to legalize marijuana in the state. With this group, I led a team to rural northern Nevada so we could gather enough signatures for the initiative to appear on the ballot. My crack team of volunteers consisted of a failed stand-up comic, an ex-felon who spent the 1990s in California State Penitentiary (a reformed pimp and carjacker), and his girlfriend. While this alone could have provided the plot for a bad movie...
...PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. On Independence weekend, fiddlers from across North America will gather in Port Townsend for the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes. The fiddlers--experts on violin and banjo--will play traditional tunes from their hometowns across the U.S., Canada and Mexico...