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...city of Ghazni fell to Northern Alliance troops. Taliban forces took the two Americans, two Australians and four Germans with them in the retreat from Kabul. Abandoned in Ghazni, the workers were picked up by Northern Alliance supporters, who allowed U.S. troops to move in with helicopters and whisk them to Pakistan. Georg Taubmann, one of the German aid workers, said their release was "like a miracle." THE NETHERLANDS More Evidence Prosecutors at the U.N. war crimes tribunal charged former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic with genocide in Bosnia, in the third case filed against him so far. Evidence from recent...
...play where words are so vital, the thrust of the show lies in the actors’ abilities to make their words heard and the effect of those words clear. In this area, the production has its notable flaw. Some of the actors whisk through or swallow their lines; others seem uncomfortable with the accents they have had to adopt. While it is not imperative to catch every bit of dialogue (after all, there’s a lot of it), a few too many viewers at the performance I attended had to turn to their friends for assistance...
...auction of photographs and Julia paraphernalia followed, in which bidding for a whisk reportedly purloined from Child’s own kitchen hovered at $300. When a 10-person dinner cooked by chefs from Rialto and Oleanna was tacked onto the offer, the closing bid came...
After a short celebration, elated committee members—Houghton, Gray, Gagnon, and Stone—Summers and University spokesperson Joe Wrinn piled into a convoy of chauffeured sedans and raced for Newark airport. There awaited Houghton’s private Corning jet, ready to whisk them to Cambridge and a scheduled 5:30 p.m. press conference to announce to the world that Summers would be the 27th president of Harvard University...
...After a short celebration, elated committee members—Houghton, Gray, Gagnon, and Stone—Summers and University spokesperson Joe Wrinn piled into a convoy of chauffeured sedans and raced for Newark airport. There awaited Houghton's private Corning jet, ready to whisk them to Cambridge and a scheduled 5:30 p.m. press conference to announce to the world that Summers would be the 27th president of Harvard University...