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...President and Prime Minister, and Mohammed Id Ashawi, 59, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. All the inmates are said to be in poor health because of inadequate medical care and, in some cases, the effects of torture. Some reportedly are victims of the "German chair," a modern-day torture rack used by Syria...
...waving crowds abused civil rights demonstrators in 1960 and 1990. In a high school Humanities class, Joey (a boy I'd known from kindergarten) casually remarked that he planned on skipping school and "bust some nigger heads with my nigger stick"-- the wooden club he kept in the gun rack of his pickup truck. Like nearly every other pickup truck in the South, Joey's truck had Confederate flag vanity plates and a Stars and Bars silk-screened on the back windshield...
...Little Boy atom bomb. Back in the bomb bay work is going on to reconstruct the single hook used to suspend and release the bomb. A normal double hook for bombs was abandoned by the mission planners, who feared, if one malfunctioned, the armed bomb might dangle in the rack like hell on a tether. You remember the day 44 years ago on a college campus when the news came of the Enola Gay's successful drop and the public dawning of the nuclear age, how you sat up most of the summer night talking and wondering...
...second period Kierstead escaped to rack up a point, but Guciardo did the same in the third period, and the match ended...
...that some of the dresses were loans, not gifts, or that they are no longer worth very much once they have been worn, may not impress the IRS. A gown, even one that doesn't suffer soup stains, may depreciate from a $20,000 price tag to off- the-rack in a single evening. But that is the point of haute couture. Its value derives mainly from its once-in-a-lifetime wearing. Los Angeles designer David Hayes, from whom Mrs. Reagan borrowed more than 60 outfits, says of those she returned, "Once something is worn," its value is "nothing...