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...picture was quite different last week, as Goode testified before an eleven-member commission he had appointed to investigate city officials' handling of the episode, particularly the decision to drop a bomb from a helicopter onto the roof of the heavily fortified Move row house. The police hoped the explosion would blow an opening for their tear-gas charges; instead it ignited the fire. Claiming that he had been misinformed and disobeyed by then Managing Director Leo Brooks and Police Commissioner Gregore Sambor, Goode said, "They did not follow my directives...
...over the vast territorial imperatives of her body." Even so, Bradbury remains a conjurer, and whenever his plot or prose flags, he brings on a new character: the worst barber in the world; "a circus of one" who moves his feast of dogs, cats, geese and parakeets from a roof in the summer to a basement in the winter, never speaking to people, only singing to them; a gape-mouthed alcoholic who sleeps in empty tenement bathtubs. These people are exaggerations, of course, but they remain recognizable members of that unending troupe of ragpickers and pensioners now huddled under...
Inside Jagannath Hall, a residence for non-Muslims attending the University of Dhaka, more than 400 students packed the auditorium to watch Shuktara, a popular weekly television drama. Outside, high winds and torrential rains buffeted the building. Without warning, the roof collapsed, killing at least 35 people and injuring scores of others. Said Amalendu Bose, one of the survivors hurt in the disaster: "It was like hell let loose all of a sudden." Rear Admiral Sultan Ahmed, the No. 2 man in the Bangladesh government, arrived on the scene to supervise rescue efforts. The task of freeing victims from...
...dome, which opens and closes mechanically to protect the large telescope in the roof of the Science Center, apparently short-circuited while a group of students were preparing to see the comet. The comet, which was highly visible last week, will not be as easily observed until it moves into prime position next spring...
...occurred after the Brown Daily Herald ran an article on Bouldering. Aside from that, he says, he can not confirm that bouldering even exists. Krupevich said however "there is a rumor about a student throwing a grappling hook out his window to climb the two stories to the roof...