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Palestinian spokesmen accused Amal of attacking Bourj el-Barajneh with mortars at midday, killing five children and wounding...
Meetings are shorter. Reagan goes back to the living quarters at midday. No state functions are set for a few weeks. Horseback riding is out. Plenty of rest, much laughter. At last week's Cabinet meeting, he laid off jelly beans. He's tentative about the big things...
...tribute to the country's long-suppressed commitment to democracy. Some 69 million voters, or 95% of those registered, cast their ballots. That showing was a record even in a country where voting is compulsory. In working-class neighborhoods in Sao Paulo, residents waited up to an hour in midday heat for the chance to vote...
...rumble," said the announcer before the stage curtain at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel rose to reveal Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvelous Marvin Hagler perched atop separate pedestals. Last week's midday macho matchup was strictly for exhibition, however. The pair were announcing their superhyped superfight, set for April in Las Vegas. "This is not a career for me," jabbed Leonard. "This is one fight." Shot back Hagler: "There is no one else out there for me." Both blared that they were not doing it for the money. Still, the green spoke pretty loudly too. The guaranteed...
...effect on the girl who tells it. She grows up, marries, moves from Ontario to Vancouver, has two children. While driving across the northern U.S. on a trip back home, she and her husband stop at a municipal swimming pool in Montana so their daughters can briefly escape the midday heat. The younger one almost drowns, and this frightening moment triggers a rush of memories in the mother, including the one that begins the story. As a child, she hated the adults who could not protect another child from death; now, thinking of her own daughters and a narrow escape...