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FRIDAY 04/11/08

GE Shocks Market with Profit Drop, Shares Tumble
The rumbled air pulls at the unyielding floor. It owns our unfilled pockets, hauls in lifetimes of anguish- the richness of shock and awe.

American air Cancels More Flights
By way of the vanishing road and rail we cross the skies as the mist of a morning river would climb a cliff ...We’ve always dreaded the sudden drop.

15-month Iraq Tours Test Soldiers and Families
March along now warrior. March along. The hue of occupation strokes these burnt homes and your occasion grows shorter, smaller, weaker, 12.

Chinese Anger and Terror Warnings Cloud Olympics
What bruised communion of hope and dread has slinked into this beautiful world? Everyone seems blind and numb, deaf and dumb, searching frantically for peace and human kindness in a contest of nations.
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