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McMillan described the experience of living above Tommy’s—located at 49 Mt. Auburn St., across from Quincy House—as an ordeal...
Events like Camby’s ordeal put sports in perspective. The healing process his family has to endure from this point on transcends the importance of any playoff series, and anyone who faults Camby for his ineffectiveness or his Game 3 absence needs a head examination...
...faced an enemy that, like bamboo, could be bent but not broken. As a result, the war was essentially unwinnable. For Kerrey and his buddies, who grievously suffered, and are still haunted by the ordeal, the epitaph for Vietnam and similar ventures is succinct: "Never Again...
...March, however, a district court in Yaroslavl acquitted Mezhennaya "on the grounds of the absence of a crime," to use the Russian legal phrase. The prosecution promptly appealed and the ordeal will now start all over again, in the regional court. Mezhennaya says she has no way of knowing whether she will still be free at the end of the month. Kukin, the TV correspondent whose report triggered Mezhennaya's problems, now works for the local state-run TV station. He is testifying for the prosecution that she urged him to do the allegedly slanderous feature...
...faced an enemy that, like bamboo, could be bent but not broken. As a result, the war was essentially unwinnable. For Kerrey and his buddies, who grievously suffered, and are still haunted by the ordeal, the epitaph for Vietnam and similar ventures is succinct: "Never Again...