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Shrouded in mist and falling snow, the blue-and-white Kuwait Airways A-310 Airbus looked as if it had been scuttled and abandoned in a remote corner of Tehran's Mehrabad Airport. Most of the shades were tightly drawn, and there were few signs of life within. But Kuwaitis monitoring air-to-ground radio broadcasts picked up bloodcurdling sounds from the jet: they were the anguished shrieks and hysterical crying of a man being tortured and maimed. For those watching the tense drama developing, there were glimpses of gun-toting youths with checkered Arab headcloths drawn over their...
HANOVER, N.H.--There's not a lot going on in Hanover this time of year, what with Dartmouth on winter break and no snow falling...
...moving "with or as if with a puff of air." The hunters themselves have a more evocative term-they call it "maple leafing," a lovely image. To boot, the very names of the birds roll off the tongue like a song: pintails, canvasbacks, eiders and green-headed mallards, snow geese, marsh wrens, white-winged scoters and cinnamon teal...
...look down at the snowy earth where my father lies. There are footprints under the maple tree that grows over his grave. People have been here, although the snow around the other graves is untrammeled. It was June when we buried him--the summer solstice. The day I return is Ash Wednesday. He lies there in the cold winter ground. I make a snowball with my hands, pack it firm, and lob it gently at the grave. There doesn't seem anything else to do here...
...Clockwise from upper left) Despite snow flurries and bitter winds, 40,000 fans attended Game 101 at the Harvard Stadium. The cold temperatures discouraged elaborate tailgating but not enthusiastic spectating, even from the Yale bulldog, who strolled around the field while a flasher made several token appearances. Banished to the end zones, undergraduates wearing "Bulldog Buster" hats and "Fight 'Fiercely Harvard" pins built human pyramids and chugged beer. Both sides of the Stadium took turns standing and cheering, then sitting and shivering...