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...blast they heard next wasn't theirs. "I saw a flash of light that was thrown at us, but it didn't reach us. Immediately after, another flash of light," Sergeant Ron Drori told TIME. "I understood right away it was a bomb." It wasn't a suicide attack, as early reports suggested, but a bomb thrown from a balcony. When the device detonated just feet from the soldiers, Palestinians on the roof opposite opened up with automatic weapons. "It was like a curtain of fire," said Drori. "We couldn't see anything, and all we could hear...
These guys get filed under "roots rock" because they have been known to sing like Byrds and rhyme 'n' strum like Dylan. Now they have thrown together every instrument and influence at their disposal, futuristic synthesizer atop old-fashioned piano, to prove they're no nostalgia act. The result is gorgeous. Half the songs are close to perfect: the melodies stick, the newfangled keyboards breeze in and out with supernatural grace, the words submerge the listener in both sadness and blissed-out reverie. The band has lost its "roots" and found its voice...
...person, including transportation, but both CI and HSS subsidized half the cost for everyone on the trip. Pre-game rituals did not include prayer; instead, the train ride was full of the gratuitous swearing and off-color jokes of the HSS men. CI sources report they were not thrown off in the least by the irreverence...
...retrospect] I’m thinking I should have thrown [Crockett and Saty] in the first and second to get us off to a good start,” Walsh said...
...really like Tufts kids all that much,” Cappy remarks unexpectedly. “They don’t do a lot to help relations with the city.” Explaining one of the sources of this grievance, Cappy says he’s been thrown out of frat parties simply because he was a “townie.” “A lot of people here that I’ve met, they don’t like Somerville people,” Cappy says. Perhaps offering an inadvertent explanation, he recalls that...