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...message he had been awaiting from an intermediary: if he wished to interview members of an Iraqi resistance group, he should show up at a specified address in Baghdad the following day at 8 a.m. Bennett arrived at the appointed hour and got into a car that sped west out of the capital. Halfway between Fallujah and Ramadi, he was blindfolded, and the car turned off the highway. After 10 minutes it stopped. His guide explained that they were placing wooden planks over a canal. They drove over the water and into a grove of baby pomegranate trees...
According to witnesses, Andrew G. Sullivan ’06 smashed a light-colored sedan into the residence hall, backed up and then sped down Mt. Auburn and DeWolfe Streets...
...closer to the actual President as opposed to being shunted off with the hoard of journalists at a ?filing center? in a hotel miles from the action. It was wild watching thousands of Filipinos, most friendly, many emerging from the slums, line the streets as Bush?s motorcade sped sometimes inches from the throng. For long stetches police seemed to be absent and you really felt like some crowd might get plowed down...
After the incident, Gibson told The Crimson that a small car containing two men had sped down DeWolfe Street and hit Foye in the hand...
Susan Piver, author of The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say "I Do" (Putnam), claims the pre-wedding period is "like an incredibly sped-up marriage, with all the emotions, stresses, pressures, hopes and fears," with divorce one of the biggest anxieties. "A lot of engagements are called off because people are afraid of getting divorced," she says...