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...round hut, made of roughhewn wood posts and a conical thatched roof, is known as zawya. In the Afar language, that means the house of the dead. Although it is not long after dawn, 26 bodies have already been wrapped in filthy burlap shrouds on the earthen floor. The air is sickly sweet with the smell of decay. Inside, in accordance with Muslim custom, Hussein Yussuf is tenderly washing the shriveled body of a three-year-old boy. "This is the first water this child has had for a long, long time," says the 60-year...
...Democrat. Richard Stallings, 44, a college history professor, treated Hansen's crime obliquely in his campaign. "Some claim to be fiscal conservatives but their own lives do not attest to that," he said. "I stay out of debt and pay the bills when they come due." By dawn on Wednesday, Stallings led by a mere 67 votes...
...Giselle," a 19th century romantic classic, was inspired by the German legend of the 'Willis'--the ghosts of young women who die before they marry. Bitterly tormented by unfulfilled love, they wander the earth from midnight to dawn luring unsuspecting males into a dance to their death...
...when it finally broke though the clouds yesterday--just seconds after the Yale squad had scored its first goal of the day--the sun signalled not the dawn of a Crimson resurgence but the end of a gloomy season...
...finished his wildlife division training in Denver. The country is truly beautiful-deep aspen and spruce forests, snowcapped mountains and rolling ranchland-and this partly makes up for the lack of friendship in town. So does the great variety of his work. One day he may be up before dawn to survey an elk herd by helicopter. The next day he and Duke may hike ten miles into the high country to stock a remote lake with trout. When Madison checks fishing licenses on a lake, Duke sleeps in the canoe. "He's smart...