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...shooting assassination of the shopkeeper and his son. "They are using a new strategy, drawing people to a scene before an explosion," one Mansour resident told TIME. Last week, he said a fight between a group of young people outside a neighborhood school drew a crowd. After the teenagers ran off, a bomb exploded where the fight had taken place...
...More than 100 police officers ran with the torch as it was passed along by about 80 runners. Riot police lined the streets. Three helicopters flew overhead. But only two Chinese guards were allowed to accompany the flame, because of Japan's concern over their treatment of demonstrators during previous relays. A man with a Tibetan flag tried to stop the torch early on and was immediately dragged away by police. But aside from a few minor deterrences - including a few raw eggs tossed from the crowd - the torch bearers' passage was without incident. The flame arrived at its final...
...quite interested in your house, actually.”Now Felicity really could not breathe. In a panic, without even bothering to put on her clothes, she made to rush from the stable.The Stable Boy caught her easily at the door. He ran his fingers through her hair, tugged her head back, and kissed her full on the mouth. The strength drained from Felicity’s legs as she returned his embrace. She clutched helplessly at his suspenders.The Stable Boy pushed her away. His lips curving into a smile, he handed her the tatters of her ripped-open dress...
...long ago, the little dogs raced together down the stairs, then flew out the door and onto the porch. The boy barked at the world and the girl nipped his heels. They ran to the lawn and peed on the same patch. The little boy galloped like a pony in tall grass. The little girl followed him to the pond. The boy chased off blackbirds. The girl barked as if she had helped. After the little boy died of old age, the little girl sat for many weeks at the top of the stairs facing the front door. That...
...last days of the Pennsylvania campaign, Obama made a halfhearted attempt to go negative. He ran ads distorting Clinton's health-care plan, claiming that it would force everyone to get health insurance (true), even if they couldn't afford it (false). He devoted more and more of his stump speech to slagging Clinton. "She's got the kitchen sink flying, the china flying - the buffet is coming at me," he said during a whistle-stop tour of southeastern Pennsylvania. His delivery of the kitchen-sink line was droll, but the rest of the tour was surprisingly soporific. He seemed...