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Riot cops looked on attentively as the loud, rowdy crowd surged, shouting slogans outside the barred iron gates of a sprawling Parisian townhouse. Tension in the street gradually increased until the inevitable explosion shook the entire street - a detonation preceded by an eerie silence punctuated only by the hiss of thousands drawing a breath in anticipation. But the screaming outside the French Socialist Party headquarters on the Rue Solferino weren't the expressions of horror and despair heard five years earlier, when the right-wing Jean-Marie Le Pen beat then Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin into the runoff against President...
...other than the film’s director, Alexandra Lipsitz, to join the cast and crew for an “All-Star Air-Off.” Rocking steady with the world’s elite air guitarists to AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long” served as my indoctrination to the world of air guitar and marked the beginning of my continuing love affair with every aspect of the sport. Starting tonight, fellow Harvard students and aspiring local air guitarists will get the chance to share this love...
...that he simply write down information about himself, but that failed to draw a response as well. "So we just sat in silence together," she says, "until the professor told us to go around the room and talk about our partner. When the professor got to me, I just shook my head and gave him a look that said, 'Please just skip us.'" The professor, says Wilson, got the point...
...Baghdad itself was largely quiet for much of the day as 24-hour ban on vehicles brought a pause in the daily drumming of car bombs around the city. But by mid afternoon the sounds of violence in central Baghdad were back. Two huge explosions shook the central portion of the city, and the wail of sirens came soon after. If the short-lived truce is effectively dead, many more such sounds of violence are likely to fill the few quiet quarters of Baghdad in the days and weeks ahead...
...first people I met at the rally turned out to be a member of First Baptist church. His name was Paul Walters; he is a dentist, a Republican committeeman and a Giuliani fan. When I asked what his pastor might think of that, he just shook his head as if I was missing the point...