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Orchard acknowledges having looked at plans for a contemporary art museum on the swath of land just past Peabody Terrace, on the site now occupied by Mahoney's Garden Center. This museum could potentially hold a theater space, he said...
Could it happen again? The devastated region, a densely populated swath that is Turkey's industrial backbone, was built above a well-documented fracture, which will certainly rock again. Given that the area was constructed so recklessly in the first place, there is a real danger it will be put back together just as badly. "This is Turkey," Turks like to say with a shrug, to explain away such absurdities. This time, however, the authorities say they will not make the old mistakes. And Turkey's people, shaken out of their traditional deference to the state, are determined...
...years, and you could create a hindsight game plan for Littleton. Peruse Heathers (1989), in which a charming sociopath engineers the death of jocks and princesses. Study carefully, as one of the Columbine murderers reportedly did, Natural Born Killers (1994), in which two crazy kids cut a carnage swath through the Southwest as the media ferociously dog their trail. Sample The Basketball Diaries (1995), in which druggy high schooler Leonardo DiCaprio daydreams of strutting into his homeroom in a long black coat and gunning down his hated teacher and half the kids. The Rage: Carrie 2 (now in theaters...
...looks as though a bomb in a drying machine went off in the Adams House Pool. A broad swath of dirt and trash separates the stage from the audience. In the muck you can spot ruined cardboard boxes and a half-buried rifle. Ancient shirts and shredded pants are strung up about the theatre and lie in heaps at the back of the stage. A rickety table looks ready to collapse under the iron wielded by a young woman in a stained housedress...
...Although an arrest order has been issued for Briceno, the rebels are refusing to hand him over to authorities. And it's doubtful that he will face the FARC's military tribunal: his brother is second-in-command of the FARC, a Marxist guerrilla group that controls a large swath of Colombian territory. Insiders claim that the Bricenos represent those within the FARC who are opposed to peace talks with Colombian authorities, and the murders of the three Americans may have been an attempt to force the government to back away from negotiations, under U.S. pressure...