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  • "September affected not only my life but that of all of the women of Afghanistan, " said Suhaila Sashina, from beneath her bright, blue burqa.

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  • Chinese media said cranes were excavating the sites as children cried for help from beneath the detritus and as ambulances waited together with frantic parents.

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  • And MCI was snapped from beneath his nose by WorldCom.

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  • One surprisingly rigid paw stuck out from beneath the blanket.

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  • Another of the seated protesters spoke up, the group's one woman, in her early seventies maybe, little curls of a faded blond perm peeking from beneath a knit pink wooly cap.

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  • Here, she stands atop a flowing wave of red and white marble, and emerging from beneath her is the winged skeleton of Death, holding aloft an hourglass: a terrifying memento mori hidden in this setting of religious beauty.

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