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...could tell, I still had 30 seconds to meet the deadline, and I was starting to feel desperate. In the distance, wearing a long fluttering trench coat, the dignified figure of Dean Archie C. Epps III, rounded the far corner of University Hall. I abandoned the security guards and rushed over to his side...
...forced, their followers into the building, poured gasoline around and then set, or had their followers set, fire to the place, the site has become a macabre graveyard. Police bulldozed the building and its grisly contents--at least 330, and perhaps as many as 550, charred corpses--into a trench dug by prisoners, burying the physical evidence but not erasing the horror of one of Uganda's worst atrocities. "What most disturbs me is the children who died," says Gervis Muteguya, who lost five relatives in the fire. "Children are innocent. They had no choice in this...
...aliens accosted pedestrians; the aliens faked public brawls; the aliens disturbed screenings with staged abductions; they shoved flyers for their movie in strangers' pockets. By midweek Crowley's aliens decided to crash a party for the Independent Film Channel, smuggling in a monitor and two subfunctional speakers under a trench coat...
...forbidden love for the slave princess Aida--has been put through the studio's familiar food processor. Each of the main characters clashes with an authoritarian father; Aida is a feisty, headstrong heroine in the line of Mulan and Pocahontas; the bad guys dress in fascistic black trench coats. (And while the Nubian slaves are mostly African Americans, the Egyptians seem to have acquired a blond gene.) Those Disney magicians have even found a way to retain the opera's tragic ending and still have everyone live happily ever after...
...perhaps sympathize with Princes William and Harry. Last week their normally phlegmatic father PRINCE CHARLES demonstrated in a brief but very public moment his appreciation for the reggae beat. Visiting Jamaica, the man who would be King became the toast of Kingston as he toured the blighted neighborhood of Trench Town and met with Bob Marley's widow Rita. The prince was anointed with a crown of dreadlocks fastened to a Rastafarian cap, which he donned briefly, and backward, before doffing it because of the heat. Rita Marley said had her husband been there, he would have "burn...