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Greece shrugged, but the rest of the world shuddered. The three bombs that went off just before dawn in the Athens district of Kallithea last Wednesday gutted one side of a police station, shattered windows up and down a leafy suburban street and jarred residents from their predawn slumber - but they did not faze Maria Moirani. The Athenian housewife calmly dropped off her 8-year-old son at a nearby school that same morning. "I could have made more elaborate bombs than these guys," she scoffed. Athens sees scores of such attacks a year; Mary Bossi, a terrorism expert...
...Many transgender and gender-variant people have been arrested or violently assaulted for using the “wrong” bathrooms, such as in the case of lawyer Dean Spade, a transgender man who was arrested for entering a public men’s restroom in Grand Central Station. Living as transgender or genderqueer is not a crime, and such people deserve equal access to all Harvard facilities, including bathrooms...
...finally reach the Arlington T-station after collecting some of the free food and drink the course planners were offering. Though it’s only three-eighths of a mile from the finishing point to here, I’m now moving about 11 times slower than I was during the marathon...
...When foreign aid workers from Pyongyang arrived on Saturday, they described large parts of Ryongchon as "obliterated." The train station in the center of town had collapsed, as had other buildings, including a nearby school. Those in the immediate vicinity "looked as if a fireball had gone through," said John Sparrow, a Beijing spokesman for the Red Cross, adding that "what was there isn't there anymore." He said a visiting Red Cross official had described "scorched" and damaged buildings radiating for four kilometers in all directions from the station. Rescue operations had apparently ended. Xinhua, quoting the North Korean...
...that untethered sense of fantasy and drama that has made him the most influential fashion designer of his generation. His extravagant runway shows are legendary; he once transformed Paris' Gare d'Austerlitz into a North African suq and hired an antique steam engine to transport models into the station. He gave an Edwardian garden party at the Bagatelle and re-created a turn-of-the-century gala at the Opera Garnier. But more important, he has changed the way we dress, the very proportions of our clothes, cutting dresses and jackets on the bias--against the grain of the fabric...