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...white bulletproof Alfa Romeo carrying Antonio Cassarŕ, 38, the head of Palermo's homicide squad, turned into the courtyard of the housing complex, Laura Cassarŕ waved to her husband from their apartment window. Cassarŕ and his two escorts sprinted up the steps leading to the building, but before the policeman could turn the doorknob, three Kalashnikov submachine guns sprayed a flood of bullets from the windows of three floors of a building across the street. Cassarŕ and one of his bodyguards died in the fusillade...
...This deal was sold out before the season started," Gil Bartosh, athletic director for the Midland Independent School District, was explaining the day before the game. Outside, fat drops of rain fell in sheets that turned the streets to rivers and flooded the stadium just beyond Bartosh's window. Just then a dripping grounds keeper came in to fetch a slicker. "It's gone," he said of the field. "I been out there. I got water plumb out." Bartosh canceled the junior varsity game that had been scheduled for that night, saying, "We don't want to tear...
...flashes of his famous charisma, both in occasional moments of physical and verbal strength and in the way he faced down illness and death with utter dignity. At the time, it was difficult to watch John Paul's final two appearances from his window in the papal apartments last month. But when we will watch it in the future, that final frail and pained image just a few days from death will fit in perfectly alongside his other moments of extraordinary strength and courage: standing up to the Communist regime in Poland, calling on Mafia warlords in Sicily to repent...
...escort, with a dark sedan right behind. As the cars zipped around the curve and under an arch, I could see clearly that the escorted passenger was in fact Camillo Cardinal Ruini. This was not a dream. The powerful Italian Cardinal appeared to be alone, gazing out the car window in my direction. Having just concluded the morning General Congregation session at the Vatican, Ruini was no doubt heading to lunch. By the route he was taking, I guessed his destination might be the residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, just down the hill, perhaps to meet...
...Attic” won superb reviews from many who had once ignored Barnes’ work, mostly by hinting at new directions less directly beholden to Dad’s record collection. Initial reports suggesting that “Twins” would chuck the dusty influences out the window altogether in favor of funky synths and danceable rhythms were promising—but they also raised disquieting visions of an aging Elephant jumping on a new, shakier backward-looking bandwagon...