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...whole world watched the children come out. The lucky ones sobbed and bled and called brokenly for the parents they had left only minutes before. Most of their friends remained buried inside. The rescuers wept as they cradled them, limp and weightless; fire fighters could not bear to look down at the children in their arms. "Find out who did this," one told Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating. "All that I have found are a baby's finger and an American flag." That may turn out to be a poignant, gruesome icon. How easy it was to assume that the attack...
...capital of Tejano music, Selena's fans responded to news of her death by organizing two memorial services on Friday night. On San Antonio's South Side, a throng that included children and seniors converged on the parking lot of South Park Mall. As darkness fell, they waved candles, wept and swayed gently to Selena's recordings. A similar scene took place across town at Brackenridge Park. Meanwhile, thousands of callers jammed the lines at the state's 32 Tejano radio stations, most of which were alternating coverage of the shooting with Selena music "marathons...
...compositional technique. By the time the reader encounters the dying Mozart, who was so bloated and reeking of internal corruption that witnesses said the stench was unbearable, and whose last act was to expel a torrent of brown vomit, any romantic clichas of the periwigged rococo china doll who wept when Marie Antoinette refused to kiss him have long been dispelled. In their place is a far more realistic Mozart of flesh and blood, whose musical mastery was not a gift of the gods but the life's work...
...lone bagpiper played as mourners left thehour-long private service. Dozens wept openly andembraced in a freezing wind outside the church,which is located within sight of the ocean amidneat, three-decker houses...
...Please keep your spirits high,'' urged EMPRESS MICHIKO, gently touching the hands of refugees at an emergency shelter in Kobe. One woman, overcome with emotion, wept when the Empress, who is usually kept at a distance from ordinary Japanese, tenderly embraced her. Protocol yielded to compassion as the Empress accompanied Emperor Akihito on an eight-hour visit to the stricken city, stopping at a site where many had died to place a bouquet of daffodils from the gardens of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Their tour of the disaster area was delayed two weeks, so as not to interfere with...