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...Arkansas, Governor Mike Huckabee has encouraged trick-or-treaters to engage in church or school activities instead because "we can't handle the panic that comes when a parent encounters a broken Pixy Stick in a sack and thinks it is anthrax." And businesses, fully aware that Halloween is the nation's second biggest shopping holiday, are trying to adapt too. Universal Studios in Orlando, Fla., is continuing its 11-year tradition of Halloween Horror Nights but has changed the name of its dance club from the Blood Bath to the Ooze Zone. Other businesses are erring on the side...
...faces and guns in their hands. I watch in horror as my colleague is pulled from the seat next to me. I feel hands forcing me out of the car, shoving me onto the ground. The barrel of a pistol digs into the back of my neck. A burlap sack is pulled over my head and tightened by a cord. The world has gone dark, and I hear nothing but footsteps on snapping twigs and my own rapid breathing under the heavy cloth. I am terrified - and this isn?t even for real...
...When the sack is finally pulled off my head, 20 minutes after the attack began, I am a different person. I know what it feels like to have my wedding ring yanked from my finger, to anticipate the feel of bullets piercing my skin as my captor forced me to a kneeling position and then put a second, even darker, sack over the first. When it is finally over, I look at my fellow course members from Amnesty International with heightened concern. They will be leaving in a few days for Pakistan and may even go to Afghanistan. When...
...native of New Bedford, Mass. led the team with 10 tackles and assisted on a sack. Afterwards, Balestracci gave credit to preparation for the defense’s success...
Cornell went three-and-out on the opening drive of the second half, as a third-down sack by Harvard senior defensive end Phil Scherrer—who was also playing in his first game back since injuring his ankle against Brown—forced Cornell to punt...