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That, of course, is assuming the Canadians had a mere mortal in net. They do not, and once again the "Habs" may find another way to win, despite inferior talent...
Already the comparisons have been made between Cobain and the pantheon of dead rockers that have pantheon of dead rockers that have piled up over the years. While it cannot be denied that Cobain was rocker and is now dead, the way he shuffled off this mortal coil differed drastically from his new analogy-mates...
Bakhtiar and his personal secretary, Fouroush Katibeh, greeted the guests in a ground-floor salon. As soon as Katibeh went to the kitchen to make tea, one of the visitors leaped at Bakhtiar and, according to the autopsy report, struck a "mortal blow" to the throat. The secretary was similarly dispatched. With two knives grabbed from the kitchen, the assailants hacked at their victims' throats, chests and arms so savagely that a knife blade was broken. An hour after arriving, Boyerahmadi calmly collected the trio's passports, and the men drove off in an orange BMW. The guards failed...
...takes to observing those around him. In chilling detail, Jarman describes the other patients in the hospital who are also slowly going blind. An old man stumbles to a chair and despairs at the impossibility of ver reading newspaper. Lives are restructured around treatment whose side effects are a mortal disease in themselves. Each person is assigned a number, ostensibly in order to ensure confidentiality. In this way, the healthy can cope with their discomfort by distancing themselves from the sick through this denial of their identities. Fairly soon, these numbers will become statistics...
Long ago, Californians resolved to live with their particular dangers. They come packaged with the sunshine, the freedom and the raw possibilities of paradise. But now, after Northridge, for some the most telling decline is a kind of mortal normality. "We are in the process of rediscovering our reality, our ordinariness, aren't we?" observes Neil Morgan, a columnist for < the San Diego Union-Tribune. "The uniqueness we assumed we had has come unraveled. We are so much more like the rest of the country, and we have problems. I mean, what the hell, they have snow...