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...Friday, seeking “some type of normalcy,” Clark visited the admissions office and became an LSU student one hour later. UNO, which has 1,700 undergraduate students, ran a makeshift office in an LSU building. Clark said she saw a lot of her friends on campus...
...Olympics key ring; health-care analyst James Mayes, 28, who was identified late last week, had hazel eyes and short brown curly hair. As recovery crews and police investigators continue their work, forensic experts in surgical scrub suits are trying to identify the bodies of the dead at a makeshift mortuary at a military barracks in east London. The work inside the white marquees has been slow, painstaking and complex, leading to criticism from families of some of the missing. Graham Russell, whose 28-year-old son Philip died on the bus, spoke for many when he told reporters...
...Riyadh and Casablanca and Madrid and Baghdad were hit by radical Islamic terrorists--Londoners had recognized that sooner or later, the bombers would get around to them too. "I don't feel angry," said research student Kevin Benish, 21, as he placed a bunch of lilies on a makeshift shrine outside King's Cross station the next day. "I knew it wasn't a question of if but when something like this would happen...
...Sean is an hour late, but the crowd gathered in the makeshift studio at MTV's Times Square headquarters doesn't seem to mind. Twenty-some twenty-somethings are sitting around the edges of the room when the spiky-haired British R&B star finally enters, causing more than one girl to lean forward. Sean is miked and seated in front of an MTV logo reminiscent of the Taj Mahal. The camera rolls, and the interview begins. Sean talks about being a kid and starting a band in England with his cousin, recording their first demo tape in his bedroom...
...each foot to see if the Band-Aids would ease my transition from flip-flops. As I stood and walked a few test yards, I felt the eyes of passersby focus on, well, my behind. I craned my neck to look back there, only to find that my makeshift first aid station had been conveniently located upon a dumping ground for the city’s avian members...