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...full and even ticket-holders would no longer be admitted; the metal detectors had malfunctioned and each person was being screened by hand; someone had gone into cardiac arrest; all previous entrants had been re-checked once a series of counterfeit tickets were discovered. The only certainty in the throng lay in the fact that the ceremony could not be delayed, postponed, or rerun. It had to happen exactly at twelve noon. Always on time. By the constitution.Josh and Amy abandoned the quest and elected to go watch the ceremony on TV, but I threw my lot in with...
...North Korea stepped out onto the front porch of his Islamabad home to hail the court order. Dressed in a navy blue shirt, he waved to the cameras with unconcealed glee. "It's matter of joy. The judgment, by the grace of Allah, is good," Khan told a gathered throng of reporters. (See a map of Khan's network for black-market nuclear technology...
...Last week's riot, which involved more than 2000 demonstrators who broke windows, banged on pans and drums and hurled eggs and skyr, a kind of Icelandic yogurt, at parliament and at riot police, seems to have shaken Icelandic politicians. Two days after a throng of angry protesters beset his official car on Jan. 21, Prime Minister Haarde called a press conference to reveal that doctors had found a malignant tumor in this throat and that he would step down. In an unexpected move, Haarde called for an election in May, only days after firmly and repeatedly denying the possibility...
...reach the position it has today. But sometimes, women’s sports still lag behind—in terms of attendance, campus support, and prominence. For Harvard women’s soccer, however, all that changed on Saturday. In front of a packed Ohiri Field, with a throng of shirtless men cheering on, the Crimson played in one of the greatest Ivy League matches in the program’s history, winning the game and the Ivy title in a 2-1 double-overtime thriller. What mattered nearly as much was what happened off the field. The crowd packed...
Shortly after Obama's election, a throng of people stood outside the Chicago headquarters of two of the country's leading chronicles of black life, Jet and Ebony magazines, and beamed at a row of covers featuring Barack and Michelle Obama...