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MONROVIA, Liberia (CNN) -- The first thing that hits you when you get off the plane at Roberts International Airport outside the Liberian capital of Monrovia is the rain.
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"I was tired of being outside, in the rain, snow, burning heat, " she said.
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As the president signed the bill, a group of protesters marched in the rain outside on Pennsylvania Avenue.
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The sound of wind and rain lashing the trees outside infiltrated the silence.
NEWYORKER: Outage
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Later that night rain pounds fiercely on the wide leaves of the palms outside my window and lightning flashes perilously close to the Buddhist temple next door.
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Outside the Louisiana Superdome, where as many as 30, 000 people sought shelter, refugees waiting for a bus out of town completely covered an outside plaza, where they waited in the heat and rain.
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Yet, when news came of Mitterrand's passing, thousands of people braved the rain this week to deposit red roses, a socialist symbol, outside his office.
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Outside, the rain continued to hammer away at our dismal little world, and the sky had shucked the last of its evening gray to take on an intense purplish tone that was ominous, close-in, Biblical.
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