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...battle for Shwedagon began in ferocious noonday heat. The authorities had locked the gates of the pagoda, Rangoon's most famous landmark, by mid-morning to prevent the monks who had led the weeklong demonstrations against Burma's military rulers from gathering. Police and soldiers guarded the entrances. The eastern gate of Shwedagon is where thousands of monks would otherwise exit to start their march into downtown Rangoon. But today, hundreds of soldiers and riot police blocked their...
...Yahoun, a village straddling a ridge two miles north of Bint Jbeil, four Merkava tanks could be spotted, two of them parked in an olive grove, the other two nestled up against a house where the crews were billeted. The tanks looked as benign as sleeping dogs in the noonday sun, and temptingly juicy targets for the Hizballah men keeping an eye on them from the corner of a house in Beit Yahoun. The tanks were later joined by another Merkava and an armored bulldozer, which brazenly crossed the main road leading into Bint Jbeil, causing consternation to motorists forced...
...sharp crack of outgoing artillery rounds from Israeli positions just across the border is accompanied by the door-slamming sound of exploding shells nearby. Dirty clouds of smoke and dust blossom on the rocky hillsides. The flames and smoke of brush fires sparked by shelling add to the noonday haze and turn vast expanses of countryside into sterile charred deserts. Jets swoop overhead, dropping massive bombs that leave huge towering columns of smoke, the blast carried for miles on the hot breeze...
...shares of White Sewing Machine at $1--and in the absence of any other buyers, got it. The stock had been as high as $48 some months earlier. The heads of New York's biggest banks had pledged $20 million each to support prices. But at a noonday meeting, they concluded that they could not stop the declines. In fact, one of the bankers, Albert Wiggin of Chase Bank, in a personal account had quietly sold the market short. The Dow would ultimately fall 89%--12% the day of the crash--ushering in the Great Depression.--By Daniel Kadlec
...there's any shortage of material on the subject. Alongside some noxious self-help manuals, there have been remarkable personal accounts - William Styron's Darkness Visible, A. Alvarez's A Savage God - and excellent academic texts like Kay Redfield Jamison's Night Falls Fast. But Andrew Solomon's The Noonday Demon: An Anatomy of Depression (Chatto & Windus; 560 pages) is poised to become the book for a generation that, more than any other, has this "living death" at its core...