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...explosion happened in an instant. Late in the afternoon of June 9, on a beach in Beit Lahiya, a blast of heat and shrapnel killed seven members of a family who had gathered there for a picnic: Ali Ghaliya, five of his children and his second wife. His first wife and four more of his children were wounded, as were dozens of other people. A Ramattan News Agency cameraman rode to the scene with an ambulance. After arriving, he filmed Huda Ghaliya, 10, stumbling through the carnage, wailing and beating her chest, calling out for her dead father...
Spending time on the road invariably means eating at hotels and restaurants - but if you're bored of being waited on, why not put together a picnic and head out to a park or scenic spot? You'll catch a slice of everyday life and a breath of fresh air along with your lunch. Many hotels will organize a packed meal for you, but assuming you have the time it's much more fun to head to a bustling food hall and browse unfamiliar delicacies for yourself. In fact, some of the more elaborate food stores, like those listed here...
...undergraduates might wield some influence. But the victories of the assembly have been few and far between—it is to be credited with helping win free toilet paper for the River Houses, and last year it staged a rock concert and a poorly attended spring picnic. Of late the assembly has grown even more timid; last week it refused to endorse the candlelight march against aid to El Salvador—as positive a student effort as this University has seen in three years—for fear of taking what one member called...
...Traveling to many of the world's trouble spots, the artist has documented the atrocities of Bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda in a hyper-real mix of painting, drawing and diary-making. A typical Gittoes canvas, with its Goya-like grotesqueries, can make Picasso's Guernica look like a picnic. But on arriving in Iraq in 2003, the artist felt a new medium was required to capture the surreality of what he was experiencing. Meeting Baghdad's gangsta rap?spouting U.S. Marines, Gittoes was inspired to shoot the musical documentary Soundtrack to War (2004), in which mainly black soldiers sing straight...
...even, but organizers hope to do better this year.HORSE LEISURE When they’re not watching the ball, the spectators will tailgate in elegance. The men will come in jackets and ties; the ladies in cocktail garden party attire.“They’ll bring lovely picnic baskets and set up their lunch and eat on the grass,” says Kirsten Lewis, manager of the Polo Club. “People get very enthralled in these matches. There’s cheering, and there’s a lot of hoopla. But it will...