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...midnight explosion last week rocked the three-story brick district headquarters of the U.M.W. in Pikeville, Ky., incidentally shattering a huge portrait of the late union leader John L. Lewis that hung on the wall. The strike has produced one death, hundreds of injuries and more than a thousand episodes of rock throwing, smashed windshields and punctured tires. Gunfire has been commonplace. Snipers killed a nonunion coal-truck driver, Hayes West, 35, in a convoy crossing Coeburn Mountain in late May. Gunfire wounded Miner Judy Mullins, 40, in the hand in July while she was picketing in Canada...
...situation is, we wouldn't be ready to take responsibility for a thousand years." AMAR MANA, 27, Iraqi private, about when Iraq's army will be ready to assume responsibility for internal security...
...many ways, I could see Greg managing to carry off many lectures, maybe two lectures a week, with a thousand people in the audience,” Laibson says. “Greg could do that and it would be inspirational...
...first time I listened to the bell of Memorial Church was on the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001. There was an ad hoc service in the very same place graduation is held annually; (newly minted) University President Lawrence H. Summers gave an address. Ten thousand from across Harvard huddled together—in part just to be near each other, despite so many of us being strangers. Miles from home, having arrived just days before, we stared at each other confusedly. We marked the occasion, as best we could, without ever really grasping its meaning...
...soon as we stopped them from moving on us,” said senior varsity six-seat Dave Stephens, “we started rowing through them. By the time they got to the one thousand, they were done...