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...that book was a boy ahoof in Mexico in 1950, to whom it was easy to give your heart. The Crossing moves two orphaned brothers on ( horseback across the same spare terrain, this time just before World War II. Violence, raw land, unlettered people, love, loss and a throat-slit dog have something to do with the new narrative; or you could say it is about that mean crossing from child to man, told as cleanly as you'll find...
...beach, there was no standing around. We tried using the fold-up bikes we'd trained on for two years. But the rubble on the roads made the whole thing impractical. After about three miles, we were ordered to stack them up in a heap. We dug slit trenches the first night in a churchyard; Jerry was maybe 1,000 yds. away. When we tried to negotiate with a local farmer to buy some eggs, he was mystified by our Quebec French and finally asked in English, 'What do you want?' He had been a steward on the French liner...
...common room, which he shares with roommates Douglas M. Kaden '94, David M. Lange '94, Anthony J. Laracuente '94, Hoon Lee '94, Jon-Peter F. Kelly '94 and Salaiman S. Mamdani '94, features a collection of stuffed bears experiencing different deaths--hanging, stabbing, shooting, pills, grenade and slit wrists...
Instead, Richard C. Silver, propreitor of the Mayflower Poultry Company, grabbed six birds and strung them upside down. One by one, he slit their throats. The chickens struggled a bit, and then inevitably stopped their thrashings as the blood flowed freely out of their necks and they bled to death...
...places like the slit trenches around Doboj that the success of any peace effort will be determined. Officers and men alike declare they would consider any concessions a betrayal. They will fight to the last man rather than give up one foot of the ground they have won. In an eerie way, the Serbs in Doboj are not unlike the Branch Davidians in Waco, devotees of a cult of victimization: isolated from the outside world, hunkered down against forces that want to remove them, certain of their beliefs. Like the Branch Davidians, they are ready for Armageddon if it comes...