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...country's opposition, as she addressed a mammoth rally just outside his shop. Soon after Hasina's speech ended, Ali's windowpanes started shaking and cracking. Outside on the avenue, Delwar Hossain, a 26-year-old seller of peanuts, heard a loud noise and thought at first that the tire of a truck must have burst. A moment later, Quddus Miah, a street-side garment vendor, saw thousands of people, many wounded and bleeding, stampeding down the road; his first instinct was to protect his wares, but then he, too, turned and ran for his life...
...Anand reaches the accident, about 10 other Por Tek Tung vehicles and some 40 volunteers are milling about. There's no one to save. The victim, driving a black Toyota, had swung around a blind curve into the rear of a truck, which was carelessly parked for a quick tire check. He died in minutes from internal bleeding and a head wound. The 28-year-old trucker says, "I only stopped for about five minutes." He admits he never thought about driving the extra kilometer to a service station, whose white-and-blue fluorescent sign is clearly visible from...
...salary, meeting the rising interest rates on a $3,000 home-repair loan will be a stretch. And yet not every cautious consumer is in the Kerry camp. After several months of joblessness, Jesse Roecke, 46, of Midland, Mich., will soon start work as a senior executive for Goodyear Tire & Rubber. He's more frugal now but unwilling to accept Kerry's rollback of tax cuts. "I believe there's a broad-based recovery," he says. "Bush was on the right track...
...pick, I'd say The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II. I've seen them many, many times, and never tire of them. In fact, at our house we used to act out the scenes between Michael and Fredo...
...week, while Italy's state-controlled utility Enel cheered the flotation of its national power-grid owner Terna. And even after a bungled lead-up, investors piled in for a 33% share of Postbank, Germany's largest retail bank, generating €1.55 billion for parent Deutsche Post. Will investors tire? "The cash is there," insists Walter Kemmsies, head of European equity strategy at JPMorgan. "The market for IPOs is open." Next up: France Télécom hopes to raise €1.8 billion in July from the sale of a 30% stake in its Pages Jaunes directories business. Seems...