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...second-floor landing but I couldn't see much," medal recipient DeFrancesco told The Crimson last October. "So I called for a flashlight and I could make out two figures moving in the smoke. I called to them and picked them up and passed them out to the window...
Lorena Bobbitt is not the first woman to have ever sliced up part of a man's genitals. According to an article in theAmerican Journal of Surgery, in Thailand in the mid 1970s at least 100 women foreshortened their philandering husbands and threw their penises out the window--a practice dubbed in local terms "feeling the ducks". But Americans need not look beyond their own continent to find other examples--in Canada two years ago a 48 year old woman who castrated her husband was also acquitted, like Lorena Bobbitt, on the grounds that she was a battered woman...
EVERYONE LIKED RAYMOND LOUzoum. Children would stop to stare at the marionettes in the window of his optical shop in downtown Algiers. With his fair hair and blue eyes, the tall, garrulous Tunisian Jew was often mistaken for a Frenchman. During 30 years in the city, Louzoum even played the role of a French colonel in an Algerian film on the war of independence. But in a city where foreigners are now targeted for death by Islamic militants, few people were surprised when a young man walked into Louzoum's shop in broad daylight last week and shot him dead...
...still two hours away from Quanzhou. Once the high speed highway is built, we'll be able to make the trip in 45 minutes," Mingke explained as she downed the rest of her mineral water and threw the empty bottle out the window...
...turned wistful. "When your father first came home, in 1979, your grandfather recognized him the moment he saw his head in the window of a car making its way up the street. That's him, that's him,' grandfather said. His eyes were brimming with tears. None of us had ever seen your father before so we didn't know what to look for. Your grandfather started crying. He hadn't seen his son for thirty years, but he still recognized him anyway...