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...National Weather Service expects highs in the 80s for tomorrow's opening day, although thunder-storms will threaten in the afternoon. Forecasts, predictably, call for dry skies inside Memorial Hall, where registration will be held...
CONGRESS: Thunder in the Dome...
Lincoln wrote the lyrics to the best songs on all three albums. Some, such as I've Got Thunder (and It Rings) are prickly proclamations of self-esteem ("I'm a woman hard to handle, if you need to handle things./ Better run when I start coming. I've got thunder and it rings"). Others, like Story of My Father, evoke a sense of roots that go back through segregation and slavery all the way to Africa. There are also scornful lectures such as the one for rap singers in the title tune on Devil's Got Your Tongue: Lincoln...
Bold tyrants take heart. Fearful minorities take heed. As NATO jet fighters assigned to Operation Deny Flight screamed impotently across the skies of Bosnia last week, what resounded around the world was the thunder of Serb artillery, its cannon and mortars trained on the Muslim town of Srebrenica, its shells primed for airbursts, which would cause maximum carnage. After the deadliest barrage last week, the shattered bodies of the dead, including 15 children, lay in mute testimony to the world's age-old ability to turn its face away from the suffering and subjugation of others...
...give up. "No one at our place is holding his breath," says FBI special agent Dick Swensen. Instead the FBI is continuing its psychological warfare. At all hours, agents blast harrowing noises out of loudspeakers -- the squeals of rabbits being slaughtered, the whine of a dentist's drill, the thunder of locomotives -- presumably in the hope that the Davidians might yield just to get some peace and quiet...