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Later the same day, Iranian television cameras recorded a macabre scene at the top of the landing ramp. Gunmen wearing hoods pushed two hostages out through the door and handed a bullhorn to one of them. The man, who was wearing a white shirt, nervously introduced himself as the U.S. consul in Karachi and pleaded with negotiators to yield to the hijackers' demands. He said that they had begun a "countdown," and warned that "they are serious about their threats." The hostages were taken back inside the plane, but five minutes later the man in the white shirt reappeared...
Besides living arrangements, students say, there are other more mundane, but just as frustrating, obstacles. These include bicycles that are locked to wheelchair ramp handrails, preventing access to an accessible building; or cars that are parked in front of levelled curbs, preventing a person in a wheelchair from crossing the street; or fire alarms that are of no use to hearing-impaired students...
Police also said they arrested a Belmont man after he allegedly robbed a Harvard student at knife poi any ate Friday night outside UHS. The victim said he was on the ramp outside the building when Jeffrey Tholand, 18, allegedly approached him with a knife and said, "Up against the wall and give me that," referring to the student's wallet...
...years ago, Anne Tyler was interviewing Eudora Welty, and they got on the subject of driving. Welty, who was getting up in age, allowed that she continued to drive but that she found propelling herself off the approach ramp onto superhighways particularly difficult, like insinuating yourself into a game of hot pepper, the furiously fast jump-rope play that still goes on in schoolyards everywhere. The sharpness of the image suggested a writer's mind at work, which in fact was the case...
...days ago (April 13, to be exact), Eudora Welty turned 75, and again a question surfaced concerning motoring one's aged self around. Welty said she continued to take the wheel, even though she found this approach-ramp business "like trying to enter an eggbeater." The vividness of the simile shows an author still polishing, still looking for the sharpest edge; it is a reflection of Welty today...