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Johnson’s ability to watch the race unfold suffered Saturday, as he had to wear protective goggles on top of glasses through the drizzle after scratching his cornea in a contact lens-related mishap. “I couldn’t get any water in them, especially dirty Charles River water. Fortunately, it was Halloween, so I kind of fit in,” Johnson said. “Did it affect my race a little? Yes, but no excuses. I didn’t sail as well as I would have liked...
...Islamic figures, Abdulrazak Ali, arrived to mediate. "They wouldn't listen to me," says Abdulrazak, a cleric. "There were a few radicals among the protesters, controlling the minds of everyone else." Deputy police commander Vuttichai Hanhaboon, a Buddhist who has spent 10 years in the south, watched the events unfold from his perch on the second-floor balcony of the station. "I looked down on the crowd and thought, 'How many years will it take before these Muslims grow up?' I knew people would die. Why did they not know it and leave, like we asked them to, many times...
...tales in the Grimms’ complete collection. Tatar’s book includes 46, arranged in the order of the original volume. “I’m trying to capture a historical document,” Tatar says, “to let it unfold as it would for a nineteenth century reader...
...same might be said of Huckabees. Beneath a veneer of pseudo-intellectualism, the movie is, at heart, a joke. The plot seems to unfold in a parallel universe, a world where every citizen is required to take a college survey course in philosophy and then spend the rest of their lives discussing it. Mark Wahlberg, as a nihilist firefighter, is introduced having a fight with his girlfriend; instead of bickering over who did or didn’t do the dishes, he is trying to convince her that life is meaningless...
...life is the same, but inside I feel pure terror," says Svetlana, a Moscow homemaker with three children who declines to give her full name. "I don't let my kids go to school alone anymore. I feel I have to take them." Like many who watched events unfold in Beslan, Svetlana has a changed perception of reality. "I was in the metro yesterday, and an Orthodox nun came through the carriage collecting money for a church. She was dressed in black, and she was carrying a box. I was scared." For a moment, Svetlana wondered whether...