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...collapsed Dujiangyan City Chinese Medicine Hospital, rescue workers raced death as they laboriously tried to lift crushing slabs of concrete to get to victims pinned in the debris pile. A woman waited outside for news of her seven kin who were visiting her father at the hospital when the quake struck. The woman says she heard her father call from the rubble the day of the disaster. The following morning he called out again, this time saying, "I don't think I can hold out much longer." When night fell in Dujiangyan, a loudspeaker truck cruised the streets broadcasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Walls Tumble Down | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...trash and slabs of concrete sheared from building facades, a group of young soldiers in green-gray raincoats stand in a semicircle, chests out and arms interlocked. They face off against the mourners and gawkers who have come to watch the bodies being carried out of the pile of tangled gray debris that was once the Xinjian Elementary School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Races to Save Quake Victims | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

...core of Mrs. Lovett’s character is the desire to enter into an emotional partnership as well. She remembers Sweeney from the old days, and she is hopelessly in love with him. The things she will do for love, like the things Sweeney will do for vengeance, pile up invisibly around them and drive the show to its merciless conclusion.The audience sees it coming, and yet Flynn’s performance is so textured and so alive that you could almost trick yourself into thinking that everything will be OK. She’s funny, libidinous, and caring...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Sweeney Todd’ A Sadistic Pleasure | 5/5/2008 | See Source »

...illusions about the Clintons. As deputy White House chief of staff in Bill Clinton's first term, he handled the President's dirty work--everything from managing the Whitewater scandal to fund-raising for his re-election campaign. In addition to a pile of personal legal bills, Ickes' reward was learning from the front page of the Wall Street Journal that he'd been fired, three days after the 1996 election. But he was back with the Clintons a few years later, this time helping direct Hillary's 2000 race for the Senate. And he is again at their side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Superdelegate Hunter | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...really depressing that record stores are disappearing, just because I love being in them. It’s not like sitting at your computer and surfing on the net for something that someone recommended—it’s not the same as shuffling through a pile of discs and finding something you think is cool and asking the clerk,” she said.Flanagan is equally frustrated, but feels a sense of hope. He feels that the record store has earned its right to exist in the music market, and deserves to live...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Record Day in the Square | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

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