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...about 1:25 p.m. a pedestrian accidentally walked through orange cones at a detail on Mt. Auburn Street walked into a trench, fell and cut her hand...
Forget about Fred Thompson's pedestrian hearings. The real fireworks will start Tuesday, when the Senate Finance Committee turns its attention to the IRS. The probable highlight of this week: Cloaked in black hoods (no, really), IRS agents are expected to testify that the agency routinely abuses and mistreats taxpayers. Nearly 42 percent of the $13.2 billion in penalties that the IRS assessed against taxpayers last year was wiped off the books after corporations and individuals challenged the levies as excessive or unnecessary, leaving the revenue boys with some explaining...
...Thousand Acres" is derived from Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, itself a loose adaptation of King Lear that carries Shakespeare's plot into present-day Iowa. The film veers wildly between a pedestrian fidelity to Smiley's words and a surprising negligence of her plot sequence. The film works, but not nearly as well as it should...
There were other adjustments. "She hated the name Di," says BONNIE ANGELO, TIME's London bureau chief in the early '80s. "She was never called that by family or friends. I remember being present on a day, shortly after the engagement, when a group crowded around her on a pedestrian shopping street in Mayfair. Someone called out, 'Di!' She replied with obvious annoyance, 'Please don't call me that--I've never been called Di. I really don't like...
Last Thursday there were three of them, one apparently dressed as a woman. They stationed themselves along the Ben Yehuda promenade in the heart of west Jerusalem, where residents and tourists pack the pedestrian mall to shop and sip drinks at outdoor cafes. Within eyesight of one another, the three detonated their bombs packed with 4 lbs. of explosives, filled with nails and screws...