Word: scene
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...Cambridge Fire Department sent two ladder trucks and three engines to the scene. Two ambulances also responded...
That imaginary scene does seem farfetched, but it is the kind of thing officials in Washington and other capitals are starting to take seriously. It is very close to what happened to another ex-President, Chile's General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, in a London hospital in October. Pinochet may end up being shipped off to Spain to stand trial on charges of torture and mass murder. The families of his thousands of victims are rightly cheering, and human-rights activists are delighted that the world may no longer be safe for retired tyrants. But officials in perfectly upstanding governments note...
...biochemistry. On Dec. 4, Suzanne Jovin, a senior, was stabbed to death about two miles from campus. Police have yet to name a suspect, but last week lecturer James Van de Velde, who was advising on Jovin?s thesis and lives just blocks from the crime scene, told the New Haven, Conn., Register that he was grilled by police and asked if he killed her. "They had no relationship other than teacher and student," said his lawyer Ira B. Grudberg. "He denies having anything to do with the murder...
Intermission was a dangerous mob scene that underscored the fact that Phish is better outside. Cries of "I need to get out of this space," and "please, please let me move" abounded as the painfully packed-in crowd tried to get to the bath-rooms and concessions en masse. Good feeling resumed, though, as soon as someone started a collective "moo" to which the mob took better than the pre-show wave that died a quick death...
Daniel Pelzig has made a significant number of changes in this year's Nutcracker, some of which are for better and some for worse. Gone is the scene in which Clara and Fritz playfully try to peek through the door at the pre-gala happenings; gone also is the spicy one-woman, four-men "Spanish Dance" (it is now a simpler pas de deux). But these small changes do not make much difference in the overall appeal of the show--it remains as graceful and as cutely comical as it ever...