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...some in the camp wore that it was run by the government. That night, she says, the boys came into her dormitory, locked the doors, and took turns raping her. "They told me, 'If you cry, if you make a noise we'll beat you'," she recalls, in a quiet voice, her eyes downcast. Debbie says she was raped almost every night for the next six months. And every day, she was put through an arduous physical training program that included push-ups and 20-km runs. She was also trained how to kill: by strangling with shoelaces, by stabbing...
...Libraries are supposed to be for quiet study, so why is it impossible to accomplish anything in Lamont? Perhaps the fact that you plan field-trips there with your 25 closest friends may have something to do with it. If your studying (read: gossiping) session can’t live up to its creative potential elsewhere, be sure to use a small voice when discussing what a small, um, “pen” that guy at the next table has—otherwise, he’ll probably hear...
...hasn’t been advertised,” she said. “It was kept very quiet...
...such warnings. Several times in the past, sky watchers have announced that a rogue asteroid might threaten Earth--triggering the usual banner headlines--only to retract the warning a few days later. But while saying "never mind" is embarrassing, it would be much worse to keep a real danger quiet. And that's why Spahr's drawn-out workday was a prime topic of discussion at the Planetary Defense conference organized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and held last week in Garden Grove, Calif...
...nine quiet, carefully composed stories stitched together here give us the lives of nurses, janitors, hairdressers and professional funeral singers trying to balance their hopes between Haiti and its second act, America. Many have fled their island to escape bad memories--and look up in New York City to see their parents' killers in the next row at church, or in the barbershop. Though they could be haunted immigrants from many a troubled place, they have a dark broodingness that suggests that life is a ghost story, made up of dead brothers, lost fathers. Even when the latest tyrant, "Baby...