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Ominous sounds woke Chandralatha, 28, last week in the remote jungle hamlet of Mahakongaskanda. Sensing danger, "I told my husband to hide under the bed," she later recounted from a hospital bed where she was recovering from bullet wounds. "He kept his body against the door and tried to hold it closed. They shot through the door, killing him." Chandralatha's one-year-old baby was also killed, and two of her other children were wounded. Altogether, 44 residents of Mahakongaskanda, including 18 children, were shot or hacked to death with machetes in the bloody attack on the Sinhalese village...
...Several months ago, Mr. Bush woke up and decided he wanted to be the 'Education President'," said John Dukakis. "He can start by sending Dan Quayle to college." And he added, "you can't pull strings to get into the Electoral College...
FRESHMAN year you woke up one morning after what you knew had been a particularly exciting, sweaty keg-in-the bathtub party only to realize that you had trouble remembering what exactly had happened the night before...
Strauss, who was an executive with Proctor and Gamble Company in Cincinnati, apparently heard a burglar enter his apartment at 144 E. Corey St., in the Mt. Auburn suburb of the city, police said. When he woke up to confront the intruder sometime Monday morning, he was beaten to death, police said...
...Poof! I woke up. It was just a dream. Relieved, I ran to my desk and pulled out my wallet, checking its contents. Yep. Just enough for a big chicken salad jumbo...