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...Yemeni capital of San'a slumbered early last Wednesday morning, a Scud missile slammed into a crowded neighborhood on the northern outskirts of the city. Notoriously inaccurate, the Scud missed its intended target -- the presidential palace -- and destroyed a block of mud-brick houses. Twenty-five residents were killed in their sleep, their bodies scattered amid crumbled masonry and shreds of wicker baskets. Later, as bulldozers pushed away the rubble, workers trained fire hoses on the angry crowd to disperse it. The casualties were the first known civilian deaths in a violent struggle for power between two rival political leaders...
...time of his death, Camus was working on a long autobiographical novel, which he called Le Premier Homme (The First Man). Near the scene of the fatal accident, investigators found Camus's mud-stained, accordion-style black briefcase; among its contents were 144 handwritten manuscript pages containing about 80,000 words -- a first version of the first part of his intended work. Camus's widow Francine refused all entreaties to publish the unrevised fragment, but his daughter Catherine, now 48, who inherited her father's estate after her mother's death in 1979, decided that the manuscript would be made...
...Another Hat. They toured throughout the '60s, with Flanders providing dry commentary and lead vocals and Swann at the keyboard, adding his thin but enthusiastic tenor to such whimsy as The Gasman Cometh, Song of Reproduction (a jab at stereo enthusiasts) and The Hippopotamus Song, an ode to "mud, mud, glorious mud" that somehow became a plea for international peace, complete with a verse in Russian delivered by Swann...
...after the special counsel began his Whitewater investigation, they shredded materials from the office of Foster, who had handled some of the Clintons' Whitewater dealings, and who committed suicide last July. Senior attorneys are said to be watching miserably as the firm's white shoes are dragged through the mud. "Yeah, it's more tense," says Jeremy Hedges, one of the shredders. "But then, it's always been tense...
Surreal trail-building story: I was standing up to my waist in mud, trying to move a boulder, and a hiker came up to me and said, "Are your feet...