Word: tears
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...nchez de Lozada. Sánchez - or Goni, as he is called - sent the army to restore order. As Bolivian soldiers fired on demonstrators, impoverished Indian mine workers used crude slingshots to hurl lighted sticks of dynamite back at them. But they were no match for the army's tear gas and bullets, and the clashes left as many as 80 people dead. The people around Goni had had enough. First, Vice President Carlos Mesa renounced the iron fist - "I can't continue to support the situation we are living" - and then key ministers defected, as more than...
...statement from deeply divided liberal and conservative primates. It warned that "the future of the Communion itself will be put in jeopardy" if the American Episcopalians on Nov. 2 consecrate Canon Gene Robinson, an openly gay priest, as Bishop of New Hampshire. Such a move, the primates said, would "tear the fabric of our Communion at its deepest level." But the New Hampshire diocese shows no sign of backing down. And so traditionalists, who dominate the Anglican churches in the Third World, are likely to break Communion with the liberals. A promised commission report in a year...
...Paris and beer-drinking "college girls" seems to be authentic to the original, though. Tezuka never lets you forget the essential cartoonishness of the medium or even that you are reading a comicbook. Characters that get really over-excited, for example, will bounce all around the frame or even tear...
...class or practice comes between me and the cool, bluish glow of the numbers that dance across the lower portion of my television, changing from green to red and back to green again. Other times I find myself sad at the close of the markets—unwilling to tear myself away from the screen, my conduit to a world of bids, offers and billions of dollars in transit...
...appreciated by students, the $1 million price tag of the project is not only incredibly steep but also represents an immense waste of resources. The grant awarded for the project is not specifically earmarked for this move and could be used more reasonably. HCL’s plan to tear apart Lamont’s ground floor to build a media center that could just as easily be located on the fifth floor defies common sense...