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...week's quake near the small town of Selfloss registered 6.1 on the Richter scale, and was followed by over 100 small aftershocks that rattled windows and nerves late into the night and the following day, there were no serious injuries or major structural damages. Still, "Everybody was visibly shaken," says the town's police chief, Olafur Helgi Kjartansson. "We didn't have any clue that it was coming...
Scipeck added that he was shaken up but "happy I didn't blow up or anything...
...black strip. Jennifer's new feature, her first since the 1993 Boxing Helena, has some of that eerie mystery; it's an authentic, systematically annoying weirdie about the investigation of a roadside homicide. Five were brutally killed by a couple of maniacs in leatherface masks. Now the three shaken survivors are being questioned in a police station by two outside agents (Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond) who are skeptical of the variations in the stories they hear. Think Rashomon meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in Twin Peaks, and give lots of leeway for the gooniest improv overacting...
...Portia McPhail and Anthony Mulder. McPhail's reads, in part: "Portia was a gentle, kind, mature girl who loved playing and coaching netball." Teacher McLean is described as "an amazing teacher who loved God, life, students and sport." Natasha Bray's father said the loss of his daughter had shaken his faith, but he did not blame the OPC. "They have got a process to go through," he said. "We don't have an axe to grind." But for the New Zealand public, the disaster may raise doubts about whether adventure activities should be a part of school education...
...easy match, taking the first set 6-1 with groundstrokes that pushed his opponent further and further onto the defensive until he broke. But after an injury timeout in which junior Alex Vucovic stretched his back, Ermakov went down 3-5 in the second set and seemed shaken off his game. But he regrouped, returning to his aggressive groundstrokes in time to assure victory before the skies burst forth.After a half-hour delay and a relocation from the outdoor Beren Tennis Center to the enclosed Murr Tennis Center, Ermakov needed only a few more points to carry home...