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...London Co. expected a return on its outlay, but it was slow in coming. It's not that the settlers weren't capable of working hard. One month after they landed, they realized they needed a log palisade to protect them from Indian arrows. As archaeologist William M. Kelso points out (in Jamestown: The Buried Truth), in 19 days and in a June swelter they cut and split more than 600 trees weighing 400 to 800 lbs. each and set them in a triangular trench three football fields long and 2 1/2 ft. deep. In 2004 New Line Cinema built...
...These weren't the kind of fireworks that Israel wanted on its Independence Day. As Israelis on Tuesday flocked to parks and pine forests for picnics and revelry, Palestinian militants in Gaza were putting on a different kind of pyrotechnics display: on Monday and Tuesday nearly 100 rockets and mortars rained down on southern Israel...
...election's problems weren't confined to the validity of the vote - although evidence abounded of blatant rigging. Ballot stuffing was widespread, millions of voters were unable to vote because of a shortage of ballot papers, and on the eve of the vote, an army truck was stopped and found to be carrying thousands of ballot papers completed even before the polls had opened...
...sprawling Parisian townhouse. Tension in the street gradually increased until the inevitable explosion shook the entire street - a detonation preceded by an eerie silence punctuated only by the hiss of thousands drawing a breath in anticipation. But the screaming outside the French Socialist Party headquarters on the Rue Solferino weren't the expressions of horror and despair heard five years earlier, when the right-wing Jean-Marie Le Pen beat then Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin into the runoff against President Jacques Chirac. This time, the Socialist faithful were yelling out of joy and relief that it was their candidate, Segolene...
...Michael Cunningham, a freshman, lived roughly 60 feet from Hilscher. But he didn't know what had happened until he got a knock on his door from his resident assistant at roughly 8:15 a.m. The RA told him he needed to evacuate the floor. "The police weren't the ones knocking on our door, " Cunningham says. The group with Cunningham was told not to return to the floor but that they were allowed to move freely throughout the building. "There was a big feeling of confusion at first because we really all didn't understand," he says...