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The tail-less Barbary apes that inhabit the Rock are natives of North Africa, descended from monkeys brought over by sailors as pets and ships’ mascots.
Paul Berman seems to suggest in "The Refractory Ones" that the case of Timothy McVeigh is somehow analogous to the trial of Sacco-Vanzetti, in that a misunderstood radical faction was descended upon by a bigoted majority that then executed the sacrificial lambs.
It is impossible to measure how many more civilians who descended to the ground floors would have died but for the NYPD and PAPD personnel directing them-via safe exit routes that avoided jumpers and debris-to leave the complex urgently but calmly.
Case was standing on the patio sipping a drink when a mob of reporters bull-rushed past him and descended on Paula Jones.
Many of the people here are descended from Arab traders — noticeable in the well-attended mosques and the cries of the muezzins in their minarets calling the faithful to prayer.