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...scrawled in dust on the windshield. His next move is something of a mystery, but investigators remain fairly convinced it did not involve hurling himself into the river below. A search has yielded no body, and it soon dawned on police that Israel’s morbid window writing was the title of the theme song from "M*A*S*H." (In a meta twist, "M*A*S*H" actually once played the track while a character faked his own suicide...
...monitor cosmic shifts so as to better divine auspicious dates for royal enterprises, and to predict the fate of ruler and ruled. Nestled in the heart of New Delhi, Jantar Mantar today is mainly a tourist attraction, although it continues to function as an observatory of sorts - a window into what the writer V.S. Naipaul called "India's million mutinies...
Down the corridor on a top floor of an office skyscraper, a tough-looking man strides, radiating corporate menace. Inside his swank office, he detects danger from outside, and in a moment his colleague has been shot. Running toward the office window, he leaps out, head first, his face a mesh mosaic of broken plastic, as if it were a crushed stained-glass mask. He lands on the adjacent building the shots came from, using his own artillery to dispatch several of his would-be killers, including one with a bullet that can turn corners. Alone and triumphant, he hears...
Congressional staffer voltaire Mahasol was trying to ignore the crowd outside his window in downtown Zamboanga in the far south of the Philippines. Mainly old women and young children, they were waiting for a plane at the Edwin Andrews Air Base across the road, a free flight on the transport being one of the perks for relatives of military personnel...
...Suddenly a great gout of smoke and flame blotted the crowd from his view, blowing in his window and smashing him out of his chair into the wall. "People were shouting. The whole site was covered with smoke," says Mahasol. Dazed, he walked outside. "I saw a dead woman. Then I saw an elderly woman who was calling for help. I dialed the Red Cross on my mobile phone...