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Students said they are grateful construction is not as loud as it was last year, when workers were driving piles for the buildings. "I heard it was incredibly loud, but this year it hasn't been that bad," Kikkawa said.
"Our policy is that we don't drive piles until around 8 a.m.," Switzer said. "We haven't had any unusual complaints here yet," he added.
As both Chamorro and Ortega appealed for calm, hotheaded civilians armed with rocks, Molotov cocktails and AK-47 rifles erected cobblestone barricades, ignited piles of tires and engaged in sporadic gunfire. From some trenches flew the red-and-black Sandinista flag, from others Nicaragua's blue-and-white flag. At...
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The story goes that Orlov had chosen the site by simply pointing to a place on the shoreline while cruising in a motorboat with cronies. Building was already under way when someone discovered that this was the precise spot where the famous Verninsky earthquake had caused the lake to swallow...