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...seats, buried underground, to be used as a bunker. Maybe the children were safely sealed inside, agents thought. So the moment the faded red pumper trucks pulled in, the team leader grabbed his gas mask and his M-16 and led 16 men around the blaze to a concrete pit filled with thigh-deep water fouled with human waste and floating body parts. They waded forward through pitch darkness, saw rats swimming past them by the flashlights strapped to the tips of their rifles. They reached a door at the end that they feared might be booby-trapped; they crashed...
...battle. The breaking of the sixth seal produces an earthquake, and Koresh has predicted one soon in the Waco area. Behind the seventh seal are seven angels who blow successively on trumpets, signaling all manner of calamities: a rain of hail, fire and blood; locusts arising from a bottomless pit to bite men, who wish for death to end their torment. Koresh, in a letter dictated to DeGuerin last Wednesday, said his writing "will cause the winds of God's wrath to be held back a little longer...
...stabbing of a Boston University Law School student in the Harvard Square "pit" and the murder of an MIT student on Memorial Drive this year prompted Cambridge police officers and officials in the District Attorney's office to increase community based policing and undertake several new patrolling strategies...
Martin said the District Attorney's office continued to work on "a community-based prosecution system." The stabbing of a Boston University Law School student in the Harvard Square "pit" and the stabbing of an MIT student on Memorial Drive this year had caused the District Attorney's office "to step up its effort," he said...
...strange luck as a reporter at the Garden. I got a press pass to a Grateful Dead concert last year and got to take pictures from the press pit. So before I left for the game, I grabbed my Crimson press pass. Maybe I'll get to go down by the court during halftime, I thought...