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Later the neighbors told her it was safe to go out. But they were wrong, or lying. Afsana and her brother were walking home when a pack of men fell upon them. "They were people I knew," she says, "people who lived near us." She and her brother were tossed to the ground and set on fire. She got loose, grabbed her brother and, her clothes still burning, tried to scale a wall to escape to the roof. Then her brother's hand slipped from hers. From atop the wall, she saw the crowd ignite him again. He died...
...instance, that he plans to introduce democracy to the kingdom, whose national assembly comprises 120 appointees. It is just after evening prayers when Abdullah sits back in a stuffed chair for a three-hour discussion of the challenges the kingdom faces. As he chain-smokes his way through a pack of Vantage cigarettes, his bottom line is that change will come, but at a Saudi pace. "It is more rational to change gradually," he explains. "There is less disruption to the social balance." Even a reforming al Saud, it seems, can't escape that wary caution...
...After a couple of hours, her neighbor said it was safe for her to leave. It was a trick. In the lane, a pack of men attacked her. "I fell on the ground," she says, "and I could see all these people. They were people I knew who lived around our house." Both she and her brother were splashed with gasoline but she managed to scramble up and get away, clutching her brother's hand. Both of their clothes were alight. When she reached a wall and started climbing up, she lost hold of her brother. Once on a roof...
Companies came to be close to the school’s high-caliber minds, and gradually a technology industry grew. After rivaling Massachusetts’ Route 128 corridor throughout the 1970s, the personal computer and internet revolutions eventually propelled Silicon Valley to the head of the pack...
That time was four seconds better than his mark at the Heptagonal championships that won him third place. At Heps, Traugott ran at the back of the pack until the final 300 meters. He later regretted not making a move earlier in the race...