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Controversy immediately erupted over the event's outcome, but there was near unanimity about the virtue of the rescue mission itself. President Reagan somberly supported the decision to go in. So did the hijack survivors, including Pilot Hani Galal, who had told the tower at Valletta, "Please do something. They're going to kill us all." The same shock coupled with somber understanding had accompanied an anti-terrorist assault 17 days earlier in Bogotá, Colombia, where at least two dozen terrorists died, along with nearly 100 hostages...
...somber ceremony marked a kind of coming-of-age for a country long untouched by political violence. The man who was tapped to launch the new era in Sweden is Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, 51, the mild-mannered politician elected by Parliament three days earlier to succeed Palme. After the new Prime Minister had spent a week in the public eye and held a series of meetings with visiting foreign leaders, the contrast with his predecessor was vivid. While Palme often dazzled his listeners with his rhetorical brilliance, Carlsson's speeches tended to be as wooden as Swedish birch...
...excited, but also disappointed that this is how it turned out,” Glazer said at his somber victory party, which was supposed to be for Capp as well. “Ian and I will work together to do the best job that...
...aspect as well," says Delerm, sitting in a Paris café drinking orange pressé on an unusually warm spring day. "I've always said that what I do is the traditional chanson Française, with three couplets and three refrains." Delerm's songs often set a somber tone; rain-drenched streets and bittersweet imagery are the backdrop for stories of complicated couples, tangled communications and missed moments. He doesn't use amplified guitars or electronic squeaks; just his voice, the piano and occasional strings. "Because of musicians in the last decade like Fersen, people are paying attention, which...
Before I leave you all to your bottomless pits of procrastination, the somber educational side of me feels it my duty to provide some links of more genuine value to adequately counterweight the drivel I’ve thus far laid down. The Harvard Library web site, geeky a suggestion as it may be, is actually a nice place to waste time—ProQuest Historical Newspapers can get you the complete content of a handful of widely syndicated newspapers, advertisements included, from any date back as far as the mid 19th century, and the Naxos Music Library...