Word: reared
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...cell and told him it was time to go. "Where?" Slobodan Milosevic asked softly. "The Hague," said the warden. Milosevic nodded, changed from his sweatsuit to an open-necked shirt, and joined his armed escort. They made their way through the central prison's corridors toward a small rear door, where a white-and-blue police van was waiting. He was whisked to a helicopter pad outside Belgrade and met by agents from the United Nations war-crimes tribunal. Six and a half hours later, the man whose policies had ignited a decade of brutal, fratricidal Balkan wars...
...tales: a completely believable story told to the readers with such a spellbinding logic that you get the impression that the same thing could happen to you tomorrow." In The Man Who Knew Too Much, the murder coincides with a cymbal clash during a night at the symphony; in Rear Window Jimmy Stewart suspects that a murder has taken place across the courtyard from his own home - extraordinary events in ordinary settings...
...last of the originals rolled off the assembly line, a new, improved Mini has been reborn under the ownership of German automaker BMW. It's longer, wider and more solidly built than the original (which wouldn't be hard, given the old Mini was notorious for leaks and a rear-end assembly that often rusted and collapsed). And while the new Mini may not endure for the next 40 years, it may well do something its predecessor never quite achieved: make money for its manufacturer...
...Instead, I was relegated to the back entrance and hustled up a confusing rear stairway. At the top, I found a locked door with a sign that said, “Ring for service.” I rang. A secretary opened the door a minute later and shuffled me into a nearby back office...
...tighten the siege and the guerrillas would have been forced to surrender the hostages they had plucked from an island resort a few days before. But commanders dropped the ball big time. Sometime before dawn the following day, the 200 Abu Sayyaf fighters escaped through the rear wall of the hospital and church compound. One Lamitan woman, awakened by the sound of footsteps in the lane, peered out to see the guerrillas stalking by. "They just walked away with their hostages," she later said. "Nobody challenged them...