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...woolen jacket, with her hair tied back with a ribbon, she has dressed as if she might be going to lunch with friends. To get there she walked along the airport road dubbed Snipers' Alley, and she does not flinch at the crack of rifle fire and the occasional thud of exploding shells. "I have seven people at home, and my friend was supposed to meet me here to help me carry water, but she hasn't come," says Tutundzic. "No one else can help me. My two sons are wounded, and my husband is an invalid. I no longer...
...carried potent political messages, from Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chats to Fiorello La Guardia's reading of the comics during a newspaper strike to Father Charles Coughlin's charismatic hatemongering. Today that voice is still as personal as a conscience or a demon. Especially at midday, when the bass thud of a barroom rock band announces the arrival of Rush H. Limbaugh III, 41. "Ensconced in the Attila the Hun Chair at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies," Rush is ready to turn the disparate American radio audience into one big ear. "Turn it up, folks," he commands. "Listen...
...remember being in the room and I heard this sickening thud when he hit the ground," said roommate Roel R. Torres '95. "I thought maybe it was just his binoculars falling. I heard Bill gasping and I just looked down and he wasn't moving and he wasn't conscious. I was just really scared that he was dead...
...That thud heard last week was the sound of Europe's last Marxist dictatorship landing on the trash heap of history. Following three days of student riots in Tirana, Albanian President Ramiz Alia summoned leaders of the demonstrations to his palace. Alia then abruptly canceled the Communists' 44-year monopoly on politics. He announced that henceforth rival parties will be permitted in the interest of "further democratization...
...down more than that after an evening's play. Unofficial side games here routinely slosh with more money than the World Series itself. Hundred-dollar bills are banded in sheaves of 50; and sheaves are wadded in stacks of ten; and bets and raises hit the table hard, thud-thud-thud...