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...movies to life, but you'll be slightly disappointed to find Jessica Fletcher's ("Murder She Wrote") beloved Cabot Cove next to the lake where JAWS resides, and Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys' houses across from that of the geriatric Golden Girls. Transportation is made easy by tram and escalator. In fact, everything is so pleasing and easily available that you'll find yourself defending the legitimacy of spending your money here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: L.A. on a Student's Budget | 8/6/1996 | See Source »

...their campaign to divide the newly independent Bosnia along ethnic lines. By April 6, Kruno continues, word went out that people should report to work, though friends called to warn of roadblocks manned by ominous-looking civilians with stockings over their faces. "But some people who took the tram that day did not know," he says. "Many were never heard of again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONE FAMILY'S OR DEAL | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

...lost control of the right side of her body. During the weeks of painful recuperation, Poturak sustained herself with a single vision: she wanted to take her young son for a walk in the neighborhood and, without having to be afraid of mortars or snipers, board a tram. When Wednesday's shell sent a piece of shrapnel into her right thigh, Poturak realized that Sarajevo has become a place where wishes as simple as hers are extravagant. Her sentiments are now the despairing antithesis of those expressed by so many Sarajevans only days before. "I don't think our army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRUSHED HOPES | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

...body lay in an open casket, her head turned to the left side and wrapped in a white headband. Her sisters, Thao and Tram, also wore the mourning bands. White is a traditional color of mourning in Vietnam...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Friends, Family Remember Ho at Buddhist Funeral | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...older sister, Thao, a student at Tufts University, comforted Ho's younger sister Tram, as they stood next to the plot. Meanwhile, dozens of mourners slowly filed by the coffin, tossing flowers into the grave. Some knelt before Ho's photograph on the ground or crossed themselves...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Friends, Family Remember Ho at Buddhist Funeral | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

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