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...bureau chief Lara Marlowe. "Under the circumstances, there is a lot of tension within the society," Marlowe says. "People are starving to death in this enormous prison state. The only way out of the country is to drive 12 hours across the desert to Jordan. And Saddam keeps a hangman on duty 24 hours a day." Marlowe also cautions that there are at least three reported coup attempts each year, many of which are unfounded rumors floated by Saddam's enemies to create an air of instability. "We try to take these reports with a grain of salt. The Iraqi...
...prevented frost damage to crops, might be worth $5 billion to the right buyer." There is popularity in a passage like that. It bears information a man, even a casual-reading man, can do something with. Win a bar bet. Pass the time creatively on the scaffold with the hangman. It is skinny with legs. Crichton is Captain Reliable at this...
...Budapest acting President Matyas Szuros stood on a balcony overlooking a rally in Parliament Square and said that the 1956 uprising, which the Soviets suppressed with tanks and the hangman's rope, was actually a "national independence movement." He declared the People's Republic of Hungary, so named in 1949, dead. Now it is the Republic of Hungary, an independent state with plans to hold multiparty elections. When speakers mentioned the U.S., the crowd cheered; for the Soviet Union, there were jeers. But along with shouts of "Russians, go home!," there were chants for the man who made the scene...
...grade schoolers all across the country, the sky has begun to poke its way into the classroom. At Boston's Josiah Quincy School, Pat Keohane's first- graders play an animated game of hangman, filling in seven blanks that form the word cumulus. In Pittsburgh local Meteorologist Brian Sussman creates mini-planetariums for fifth-graders by piercing the shape of the Big Dipper on the bottom of plastic cups. In a fifth-grade classroom at the Hillside School in Needham, Mass., students think up celestial similes: trees become the "roots of the sky"; sunlight is "butter pouring through a hole...
...Lyons will not provide a restaging of the Eichmann trial. Barbie did not make policy. He was only a regional executioner, a local hangman -- he merely participated, did what he was told. His operations only extended to Lyons and its surroundings. Yet if Klaus Barbie was not "important," his trial is. It can serve a vital purpose, for future generations and for our own. Certain witnesses have to be heard; certain truths have to be uttered, repeated. Will they clarify the mystery of what happened? It does not seem possible. The determination of the killer to kill, the passivity...