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...flight soon went out, and the crowds were on their feet, cheering. Police picked up O.J.'s cellular-phone calls and began tracking the Ford Bronco along the San Diego Freeway. Reporters pursuing in helicopters overhead said that he had a gun to his head. People pulled up their lawn chairs to the side of the road to wait for the cortege to pass. They lined the overpasses, waving, shouting, holding up signs -- Go O.J. Go -- as if he were trying to elude a pack of motorized tacklers...
...gardens of the presidential palace in Kigali, a chunk of fuselage lies in an ornamental pool. Passenger seats litter the once manicured lawn. A tail wing juts through banana leaves. This is ground zero of Rwanda's carnage, where the bloodletting that has taken more than 200,000 lives had its catalyst. On a quiet evening two months ago, a French-made Mystere-Falcon carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and the President of Burundi from peace talks in Tanzania was hit by rocket fire and slammed into the earth just outside the compound, killing all 10 on board...
...schemes that allegedly cost taxpayers more than $500,000. In the most damning part, it accused Rostenkowski of a kickback scam in which he put 14 people on his payroll for no-show jobs and such tasks as taking pictures at the weddings of his daughters and mowing the lawn at his summer home...
...rarely witnessed in the late 20th century: long gowns printed with cabbage roses and exotic shawls that must be relics of Britain's imperial past. For many in the Glyndebourne audience, the evening's high point is the single, 80-minute intermission, when the ladies stride onto the smallish lawn to seize and defend their favorite picnic spot and lay out a lobster and strawberry feast as cows gaze at them indifferently from the other side...
...think me and two high school kids could do it in a week, Lawrence M. Dooley said."Look at Harvard Divinity School's Landscaping budget, then look at the lawn. They're getting ripped off big time...