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Hedges' dispatch includes the harrowing tale of an Albanian woman who fled Prekaz with her five children after her husband was killed.
After several harrowing days, Khrushchev blinked and agreed to remove the missiles in return for an American pledge not to invade Cuba and a secret pact to remove the Turkish missiles.
Discussing Harrison's harrowing encounters with uncomprehending doctors--such as the physician who broke Harrison's hymen in front of her mother--Hodo concludes that "there is not much help for a troubled young woman with a fearful secret if a medical system fails to be personal, complex, creative, [and] sophisticated."
Though harrowing, the second half of Boys Don't Cry isn't as great as the first.
Thanks to lots of spadework and liberal payments to sources, Coz's team tracked down the famous pictures of O.J. wearing Bruno Magli shoes, the harrowing diary of Nicole Brown Simpson, and the guy who sold O.J. a knife right before the murder.