Word: shells
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Things came to a head in 1993, when Yeltsin suspended Parliament and called for new elections. When foes in the legislature armed themselves and refused to leave, then spilled out violently into the streets, Yeltsin brought in the tanks. I remember watching from a rooftop across the street as shell after shell was fired into Russia's highest legislative body. In the name of democracy, Russia's President had suspended, and now was bombing, his Parliament. And the West mostly went along, convinced that it was necessary to support this flawed leader because the alternatives seemed far worse. Civil...
Perhaps the most unexpected discovery is evidence that Indians, whom the settlers assumed would be uniformly hostile, actually lived in the fort for some period of time. Trash pits, for example, yielded fragments of an Indian reed mat as well as shell beads favored by the Indians and the type of stone tool that they would have used to drill them. The Indian artifacts were found mixed in with English ones in an undisturbed layer of soil and in greater concentrations than have ever been found in Virginia Indian villages. That, and the fact that the Indians bothered to carry...
...Yeltsin, with dubious constitutional justification, suspended parliament and called for new elections. When his foes in the legislature wouldn't leave, and accumulated a stockpile of arms, Yeltsin brought his tanks to the Parliament building. I remember watching from a rooftop across the street as the tanks fired shell after shell into Russia's highest legislative body. In the name of democracy, Russia's president had suspended, and now was bombing, his own parliament. And the West mostly went along, convinced that it was necessary to support this flawed leader since the alternatives seemed far worse. Civil war was narrowly...
...noticed that Seung-Hui was painfully shy as a youngster in South Korea, but she had reassured his mother that he would come out of his shell sooner or later. "I told her he was just shy and had a soft personality." However, she says that other relatives were less optimistic about his shortcomings and reportedly saw his aloofness as dysfunctional and a telltale sign of a looming mental problem...
...rooms for next year. Who can blame us for caring so passionately about what suite we live in next year? It’s the place, after all, where we spend most of our time. It’s where we sleep, where we eat (thank you, Half Shell Delivery), and where we go to class (thank you, video lectures online...