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...most refugees, the inducement to flee is fear of imminent death. Topcagic Muharem says he is the only Muslim survivor from the village of Koritnik. On June 20, he claims, Serb militiamen herded 57 Muslim men, women and children into a basement and tossed in hand grenades, then joked that the screams of the dying sounded "just like a mosque." Ferid Omerovic, 37, is one of 9,000 from the Bosnian city of Bosanski Novi who reached a Croatian refugee camp in a U.N. convoy. "Life turned to hell two months ago," he says. "All Muslims were fired from their...
Amidst cloth-covered cubicles in the Widener Library basement--far from the official negotiating rooms--three rank-and-file members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and technical Workers members are debating the tactics of this summer's negotiations...
...night of July 17, 1918, the Romanov dynasty that had ruled Russia for more than three centuries ended in a barrage of gunfire that filled the small basement of a villa in the foothills of the Urals. The truth of what happened there was meant to remain forever hidden. For more than 70 years the Soviet Big Lie never wavered: overzealous provincials had slaughtered Nicholas II and six members of his family without orders from Lenin and the Bolshevik high command...
...beating it took in the primary season and the pummeling Republicans are sure to give it in the fall. If the Bush forces doubt that Democrats are prepared to engage them on the values front, they should play a video of the Clintons' triumphant two-block march from the basement of Macy's to the convention hall after the Ohio delegation put the nominee over the top at 10:54 p.m. Entering the Garden to a shower of confetti and 30 minutes of boisterous cheering, the couple and their young daughter looked as happy and wholesome as a family...
...best-known master was, of course, Antonio Gaudi (1852-1926). A descendant of Catalan metalsmiths, Gaudi introduced a wholly new idea of built space: an organic kind of space, not bounded by rigid lines, that undulates, flares, inflates, twists and contains stunning metaphors and moments of theater. The basement of the palace he built off the Ramblas for his main patron, Eusebi Guell, could serve as a set for The Ring -- not surprisingly, since Catalans in the 1880s were crazy for Wagner, the newest of new composers. Gaudi's Casa Mila, on Passeig de Gracia, known to Barcelonans...