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...constituency of Amethi into Sonia's neighboring seat of Rae Bareli. Sonia has abandoned her own car after marigolds clogged the fan belt, and Rahul has lost a signet ring and some skin off his carelessly outstretched right hand. "This is chaos, chaos," mutters Sonia, peering at the windshield smeared with sweat and crushed petals. "Just stay in the car, mommy," chuckles Rahul, patting his mother's shoulder...
...sides of the Mediterranean island. Since then, Greek Cypriots have taken up their President's call with fervor. Oxi fever is sweeping southern Cyprus: the slogan screams out from highway billboards, T shirts and posters; one hearse in Paphos drove to the graveyard with an oxi sticker on the windshield. From the pulpit, Cypriot Orthodox priests have pilloried the mild-mannered U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as a "Judas" and branded his plan dangerous, even "satanic." Mobile phones are lighting up with anti-Annan sms messages. "What do you say to the Annan plan?" asked the teacher last week...
...just the blowers that are driving Rueter daft. It's the boom cars--those high-decibel, low-frequency speakers on wheels that cause your windshield to buzz and your eardrums to pulse when they pull up next to you at a stoplight. It's the car alarms too, as well as the barking dogs and the banging garbage trucks and the screaming airplanes and the roaring highways and the plaster-cracking sound tracks in action movies that shake the seats not only in the theater where an action movie is being shown but in the one on the other side...
...high school. Sitting in one of his unit's blue-and-white Nissan pickups, he watched as she walked toward class to make sure she got inside safely. Suddenly a submachine gun fitted with a silencer opened fire from across the street. Glass shattered as the windshield became a web of cracks. Dhahir's driver took a bullet in the head and another in the neck and died. Dhahir was luckier. Three slugs went into his left shoulder and one punched a hole in his right hand, but he survived. "It was a well-planned operation," says Dhahir...
...CONVICTED. BISHOP THOMAS O'BRIEN, 68, Roman Catholic bishop and former head of Arizona's largest diocese; of fleeing the scene of a fatal car accident after running into a drunken jaywalker; in Phoenix. O'Brien, whose windshield was cracked in the crash, said he thought he had hit a dog or a rock. The accident occurred two weeks after he signed an immunity agreement admitting he had allowed clergy accused of sexual abuse to continue working with minors...