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...small circle of people who knew Wells, it came as a shock when the reticent and retiring 46-year-old appeared at a teller's window in a bank near Erie, Pa., demanded money and lifted his shirt to reveal a bomb locked around his neck. Wells fled but was stopped and pulled from his car seconds later by passing state troopers alerted by 911 callers in the bank. As he sat handcuffed and cross-legged on the ground, Wells warned troopers there was a bomb beneath his T shirt and pleaded for help in getting it off. Officers backed...
...journey back to Munnar; we also drove into what turned out to be the day's high point. The first sign of the latter was a long and honking traffic jam?not the kind of thing you expect in up-country Kerala. But as I leaned out of the window, the source of the disruption became clear. For there on the road in front of us was a lone, enraged bull elephant...
...Bottom line: Tennessee has no recall provision and Bredesen should weather the pain - as long as he doesn?t stand near a window. - with reporting by Amanda Bower and Mitch Frank/New York; Frank Sikora/Birmingham; Elisabeth Kauffman/Nashville; and Pat Dawson/Billings
...residents instead of another hike in the sales tax, which was already one of the highest in the country. The GOP all but disowned him, conservative talk show hosts began vilifying him and a mob gathered on the Capitol?s steps in Nashville hurling rocks that crashed through his window. An embittered Sundquist settled for another penny hike in the sales tax then left office when his term ended last January, refusing to campaign for the Republican candidate who wanted to replace...
...make her characters memorable, Kitagawa incorporates in her scripts conversations and events from her own life. Bouncing a small rubber ball out of the window, as Minami and Sena (Takuya Kimura) do in Long Vacation, for instance, is what she and her brother used to do at home. "Some writers just write to attract an audience because they think the content will appeal and not because they're personally connected to the material," says the 41-year-old mother of one. "But in my case, every drama comes from...