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...broad boulevard in Istanbul's modern new financial district at about 11 a.m. last Thursday when a tremendous bang shook down the building's windows and walls. Across the street, yellow smoke poured from the 18-story headquarters of the British-owned HSBC bank, where a pickup truck packed with homemade bombs had just set off a mighty explosion. "That first moment was not at all like you would imagine from the movies," Yilmaz says. "No one was screaming or running. If you had slapped me, I would probably have just stared blankly...
...HUPD officers were sent to North Hall on a report of damage caused to a building by a truck. The party was gone on arrival...
Many could not tear themselves away from the festivities—which included beer funneling, dancing to blasting music on top of U-Hauls and consuming truck-loads of food—literally...
...still in North Korea. To protect her chapped feet from the snow, she wrapped grass around her legs and hid in piles of leaves to avoid wolves. After days of walking on frostbitten feet, Kim reached a town and found work sorting eggs at a poultry factory. But a truck driver who was irked when she refused to sleep with him reported her to the police. On the truck back to North Korea, Kim swallowed a 50-yuan note wrapped in plastic. When she reached the detention center in Hyesan, she was searched, hosed down and beaten with an iron...
...encyclopedic memory of the people in his life and their happenings. Gifted with gab but loath to gossip, he chronicled his world and its inhabitants as a way of keeping up. I loved our perennial truck rides through Blacksburg, where he would weave together his 77 remarkable years with anecdote and lore. He read his life story on the houses and storefronts here, in this now-bustling, once backwoods home of Virginia Tech. Some of those stories are locked in the collective memories of those who spent time with him. Others, more rarely told, are forever lost. Such...