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into a hard rain...
...levees that have protected the Hurst holdings for three generations. "What is it going to be this year?" Hurst wondered apprehensively. Though long-range weather reports were favorable for the summer, he was too wounded to have faith. His income had been chopped in half by the unceasing rain of the year before; he and his wife Julie got by only because of a nursery operation that she had started in plastic greenhouses. But last week, as his trucks filled with corn and soybeans lumbered off to storage bins, Hurst could pause with Julie and exult, "I love the harvest...
...ejected from the mission because he had 'gone native.' He peppers his accounts of missionary work with graphic narratives of the blood sacrifices and propiatiations of pagan idols in which he eagerly participated. While his sisters encourage him to celebrate Mass, he flings himself into a tribal rain dance with gay abandon. The man whom the village heralded as the vanguard of godliness turns out to have been a gin-addled apostate...
...Islamic Jihad leader killed Wednesday in a car-bombing. The murder was the first major act of violence sincePalestinian self-rule began in May. The reception: Mourners knocked off the PLO leader's headdress, shouting "Arafat is a collaborator," and shoved him out a back door into the rain. Many Palestinians blame Israel -- and, by implication, Arafat -- for the killing, despite no evidence and Abed's strained history with rival group Hamas.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...Dartmouth game was the only Harvard game I missed. I rode in a car 20 hours to see the team get squashed by William and Mary. I drove through the New York plains for a total of ten hours to see the team get smashed in hail and rain by Cornell. But I refused to drag my ass from North House to Hanover to watch our gridders play the three-time Ivy League champion behemoths from the north...