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...unenviable task of portraying as criminals a group of pious Good Samaritans (who held a prayer meeting after the jury announced its verdicts). One of the 15 Central Americans summoned to the stand by Reno, for instance, described a defendant as "the only person who offered me a roof over my head when I was most in need...
...Viewers then saw a grainy black-and-white photo of what was described as Chernobyl's stricken Unit No. 4. Commentator Alexander Galkin said the photo proved that the damage was less severe than Western reporters had claimed. In fact, the photo showed that part of the reactor's roof had blown off and that there was substantial damage to the walls...
There was a short, Fenway-esque left field wall and a chance to "roof" one on the house deep down the right field line. A small tree was first base, until it got sick and had to be cut down--then the hole where the tree used to be was first base. The corner of the swing-set was second base and the flat rock by the woods was third...
...early yesterday morning "smoke was still billowing from the site. The roof had been blown off, and large portions of the walls [of the reactor building] had caved in," the source said. "And it seemed at the time that [another] nuclear unit just above it might still be in some danger...
...lightly worn classicism. For the Zueblin construction company's new headquarters outside Stuttgart, he has produced an improbable but marvelous synthesis. A kind of oversize trompe l'oeil portcullis, Zueblin House is monumental and yet entirely permeable, lucid but not glib. The clear, simple axes and pitched-roof profile are classical, and the expansive ectoskeletal shed seems snatched from some 19th century dream of the 20th. The building's priapic pivot alludes to Bohm's own pioneering work: the central spiraling stair could be an ancestor or descendant of the tower at Bensberg...