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...hours, into the gloomy Balkan dusk. The bruised voice across the banquet table belonged to an interpreter -- off duty for the moment -- a thin, brittle woman with black circles under her eyes. She smoked cigarettes one after another, down to the knuckle. She said she had not slept in days. Outrage burst from her mouth in agitated spurts of smoke: How could the world be so stupid? How could the media be so evil? How could everyone treat the Serbs -- the Serbs, of all people! -- so unfairly...
...done up, seen me come undone" -- seem ribald, until you realize that the song (Full Circle) is a kind of silver-anniversary present to a constant lover. The potently plaintive (You Got Me Over) A Heartache Tonight is a woman's thank-you note to a friend who slept with her as a curative to her love-sick blues. In the silky I'll Make Your Bed, the promise of sexual favors sounds as natural as a gift for home cooking. It's not a tease, it's a forthrightly bountiful offer that could set a fellow to swooning. Dolly...
...been a Yeltsin loyalist and had worked for his election in 1991. No longer, she said. With heavy sighs, referring to the President's speech, she asked, "How long will we put up with this disgrace?" Yeltsin's aides later explained that he had not slept for three nights and was exhausted. "These are difficult days," Yeltsin told reporters, citing the death of his mother two weeks ago. "I spent 10 difficult years living with her in a small hut, and it is hard for me to bear this loss...
...room, meant to be a one-person studio, had a cot behind a four-foot tall wall of partitions where the occupant's son slept...
Ultimately, on November 16--in a story that has earned a place in the lore of student activism at Harvard--Afro-American Studies concentrators and Black Students Association members slept over at University Hall, refusing to leave for 23 hours and calling for support for Afro-American Studies...