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...Death to Americans" shouted the mullah, his right arm punching the air. "Death to Americans" responded the crowd of several thousand men, gathered in the narrow streets of the Qissa Khawani bazaar in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar after Friday prayers. They had congregated outside the mosque to listen to speakers denounce the U.S. and its war against terrorism. At the back of the crowd a man raised a straw effigy of President Bush, set it alight, and then others flailed at the burning straw with sticks...
...43rd minute, junior Orly Ripmaster sent the ball across the face of the goal to Moran who calmly deposited the ball in the back of the net to give Harvard a narrow win in its first road contest of the season...
...another component, also—one more poignant, more personal and more important than the structural damage—to our memory of the violence. We will remember last words of telephone conversations cut off at the moment of the blast; stories of wheelchairs and their occupants wedged in narrow stairways, and the running bodies who could only hope to escape themselves; the words of a battered, bruised colossus of a firefighter sobbing, “I tried to save them all—but I couldn’t”; ghostly figures, caked in the dust...
Speaking of a "narrow escape" and a "nifty loophole," Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy were able to write of the wisdom of Bush's decision without ever admitting that Bush was wise. (THE REV.) PAUL PORTER, PASTOR Van Meter Baptist Church Van Meter, Iowa...
...together something very different. He never imagined a team so moderate. He made his dad's conservative Defense Secretary his Vice President and put Don Rumsfeld, the hard-liner who taught Cheney how to do it, in the Pentagon. Into the White House he brought the impressive but fairly narrow Sovietologist Condoleezza Rice. She looked like a moderate but has steadily morphed to the right. Powell, by contrast, edged toward the center after leaving the Army, if not on goals at least on the diplomatic means...