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...soldier emerged on the ridgeline. "He didn't say anything-he just shot a grenade at us," Afonza says. It whistled over the family's heads and dropped over the ridge. "I picked up my son and ran. Then I felt something like a stinging slap on my neck and I fell over and looked down. There was blood on my son. I thought, He's been shot...
...Afonza and his wife and child managed to escape to the hill. Last week he was still in hiding, but receiving treatment for the wounds on his back and neck. Goat breeder Lemos Pires says he'd been watching his flock when he heard shooting. "I saw Lito running," he says. "There is shooting, and then Lito fell over." Pires says he confronted the soldiers. "I said to them, You are worse than the Indonesians...
...Oxford, England Then, according to plan, [Chris] Chataway sprinted into the lead, [Roger] Bannister right at his heels. Some 300 yds. from the finish, Bannister began pouring it on, lengthening his stride for his famed finishing kick, his head rolled back, his neck painfully arched. He tore the tape and collapsed unconscious into the arms of Trainer [Franz] Stampfl. "I wasn't thinking about anything in particular," he said afterward. "I saw the tape faintly ahead, put everything into getting there and that was the last I knew about it." Over the loudspeakers came the meticulous voice of the announcer...
...begins with the closeup of an old lady's craggy face. Pull back a little, and see she is wearing a nun's wimple; back a bit more, and discover that she is buried up to her neck on the beach. Cut to the image of a pretty, sad-eyed young woman who's nearly run over by a bus. Then to shots of a girls' volleyball game, their grace and strength italicized by being filmed in slow motion. All this to Antony and the Johnsons' "My Lady Story," a dreamy-sounding, gentle massage of a ballad with scalpel-sharp...
...London, that means missing out on a lot. Tall buildings are lifting the skyline, and some of the city's major hubs, from the shabby (King's Cross in the north) to the tacky (Elephant and Castle in the south), are getting face-lifts. For a neck-craning look at some of these renovations and more, make time for the second London Architecture Biennale, which runs June 16-25. The event showcases the city's architecture and creative talent and explores the architectural evolution of form, infrastructure and landscape through talks, walks, exhibitions and film. "It's important people understand...