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...child!" The terrorists shot him in the head and dumped him outside onto a baggage cart, where he lay in agony for some time. The second victim was Bui Giang To, 48, a commercial attache at the Vietnamese embassy in Algiers. "They asked the Vietnamese man sitting in the rear to come forward," recounted one of the passengers. "Poor guy -- we saw him come back to get his leather jacket. Then we heard the shot...
...Cracked Rear View (Atlantic). Charged by rock 'n' roll but grounded in the blues, this quartet, based in Columbia, South Carolina, makes music with frat- party swagger, but the band's lyrics address such serious topics as the death of a parent and the racial implications of flying the Confederate flag. The rough, commanding voice of lead singer Darius Rucker, at left, makes it all work...
...there would be no assault on Grozny, Russian troops have nearly encircled the city and warned the bloodshed would intensify unless the Chechen forces give up. But Chechnya's President Dzhokhar Dudayev, a former Soviet air force general, decided to play chicken. Russian forces "will be attacked from the rear in a traditional tactic of mountaineers: hit and run, hit and run, which will exhaust them until they, out of fear and terror, give up," he said on Russian...
Konik has been exiled onto the fourth Harvard offensive line of late, along with seniors Ben Coughlin and Perry Cohagan--last on the pregame line-sheet, last in terms of ice-time. It's tough to lead from the rear, and yet Konik tries to remain philosophical about his role on the team...
Jimmy is an intolerably boorish young man. His rear planted firmly in his easy chair, he spouts ironically muscular, violent language, insulting everyone and everything he can. McPartland's looks--his long hair and sideburns, unathletic body, and snide, lazy expression--are well suited to the role. But the actor's line delivery is bogged down by Jimmy's endless, easy-chair-bound monologues: McPartland rushes his lines and slips into droning recitation. This problem fades as the play progresses; as Jimmy's interactions with other characters increase, McPartland's performance shows more and more energy...