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...drone of warplanes circling overhead. Then came gunshots and screams and the sickening crash of bombs ripping through her neighbors' mud-and-thatch huts, gouging craters into the dry earth. When Abdulkarim, 25, ran outside, she was confronted by two men in military uniform, one wielding a knife, the other a whip. They were members, she says, of the Arab militia known as the Janjaweed, which over the past 18 months has slaughtered tens of thousands of black Africans like Abdulkarim across the western Sudanese region of Darfur. Another man, rifle in hand, was standing over her husband's body...
...black baseball cap over his ferocious mane of graying hair for his rave-up “Buoni O Captivi,” which rips off from Michael Jackson’s “Bad” the winning concept of two gangs about to get into a knife fight, but deciding instead to just dance. Between this and Mario Venuti’s “Nella Fattispecie,” remarkable for a lengthy sperm and egg cartoon sequence, my itinerant Italian home was represented well...
...economics concentrator in Quincy House from Sydney, Australia, though he’s pretty comfortable in any Chinese city with more than a few million people. In his column, “Putting it Bluntly,” he plans to take his steak knife to some of the sacred cows on campus and to examine them in his own sharp and reductive way with a little bit of black humor on the way. His column will appear on alternate Mondays...
...with valuable tips from Gourmet's eight test kitchens on such matters as how to properly store food (never refrigerate tomatoes, for instance; it makes them mealy and kills flavor), when to use which kind of rice and how to remove fish skins (a paper towel and a sharp knife work best...
...Tuesday, Rodriguez testified to seeing Pring-Wilson holding a knife, and the defense sought to undermine Rodriguez’s credibility, forcing him to revise the account of the fight he had presented in pre-trial hearings...