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...wanted 1,000 deutsche marks [$700] not to kill my son or rape my daughter. I had no choice. I had to pay," Ogresevic said. The soldier told her to march along a small track. She saw the bodies of two Muslim women. One lay facedown in a mud hole, a gaping wound in the back of her neck. "We could hear women who were taken into the woods screaming. We knew what was happening to them, but we were afraid to turn our heads to look." When Ogresevic finally reached the front line, the Serb soldier whom...
...uniform, acted with all too much efficiency. They tailed visitors, photographed gatherings, searched rooms and bags, confiscated documents and videotapes, stopped peaceful protests, detained some journalists and on the whole created an intimidating atmosphere. To top things off, even the heavens glowered, sending forth rain that churned up mud, mud everywhere...
...formed so early in the year. So far, 12 tropical storms have materialized off the west coast of Africa, six of which have grown into full-fledged hurricanes. The good news is that the damage to date--floods in the Carolinas, toppled trees and power lines in Central Florida, mud slides on the Caribbean island of Martinique--has been comparatively mild. The bad news is that more big storms are on their way, and before the end of November, when the season officially ends, one or two may yet slam into land with savage power...
...with a gate, around their development. The author, mistrusting his skill and the reader's acuteness, relentlessly flashes irony alerts. Candido gets work constructing the wall, knowing well enough whom it is intended to keep out. Coyotes eat the nature writer's lapdogs, Osbert and Sacheverell. And when a mud slide sweeps Delaney toward mucky death, let there be no doubt whose brown, work-worn hand reaches to pull him free. This is weak, obvious stuff, worth a raised eyebrow and a shrug...
...tactile experience of planting the garden becomes all-encompassing for Leena, as she pushes herself physically. The feel of the plants as they grow taller, the mud from the garden when she waters the crops and the response of the plants to her touch are the focus of Leena's existence...