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...antique furniture. Two of them brought their mitts and played a pretty impressive game of catch. There was also a Texas-size paper-wad fight. They designed milk-carton boxes with the faces of missing Democrats, created a WANTED poster with shots of the rebels, established a toll-free number for information on their whereabouts and made a deck of Iraq-inspired playing cards with pictures of the Democrats on them. They even used the state's public-safety website to run an all-points bulletin, a move the Democrats found offensive. Democrats got much more upset--Joe Lieberman asked...
...actually opposed. Most likely, it was a case of fuzzy geography. "Of course he means Denmark," a Danish terrorism expert told one reporter. Shaken Country ALGERIA Angry earthquake survivors criticized the government for what they said were inadequate rescue efforts and blamed shoddy construction work for the high death toll. The devastating quake killed around 1,900 people and injured at least 7,000. The rescue of a 21-year-old man from a wrecked beach resort by Japanese volunteers late Friday heartened workers, but hopes faded of finding further survivors. After the Carnage DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Corpses were...
...Mongol leader Kipchak khan Janibeg, who catapulted dead bodies into the city (the first recorded case of biological warfare). The plague quickly spread to all Mediterranean port cities and European trading centers, reducing Europe's population by nearly 40% during the second half of the 14th century. The death toll was naturally far higher in densely populated trading ports, and it accelerated their economic decline...
...presence of Republican Guard survivors, of course, did not preclude the possibility that thousands of their comrades were lying dead elsewhere. But the accounts of locals do not suggest a high death toll among the Republican Guard. In many places, civilian fatality rates were higher. In the temporary cemetery that Dawrah residents had dug in a grove of palm trees, there are 34 graves, but only six to 10, locals say, are for soldiers. In Mahmudiyah, Daoud Jassim, the hospital deputy director, says 50 bodies were brought to the hospital from fighting on April 3, but more than half were...
...50¢ until someone breaks down and relieves himself. On Wednesday nights, the Bluebird offers beer for just 15¢. "We all got fake IDs the second we joined the sorority," says Krissy Selleck, a marketing major squeezed into a booth with four sorority sisters. "The party scene definitely took a toll on my GPA," says telecom major Anna Kumis. "But it's the rite of passage." Some students, however, are fretting that the school's reputation will hinder another rite of passage--getting a job. "I.U. is a very good academic school," says senior Tyson Picken. "But some companies...