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(CNN) -- Armed renegade soldiers walked through Mali's damaged presidential palace on Thursday, hours after the troops' leaders claimed to have ousted the West African nation's democratically elected leader.

Shell casings, bullet-ridden cars and shattered windows were evident in video from outside the palace, as well as at least one burned-out room inside.

And there was no sign of or indication of what happened to President Amadou Toumani Toure, with the military group's apparent leader Capt. Amadou Sanogo saying little about him beyond that he was "safe."

Still, within much of Mali on Thursday night, the situation appeared to be relatively calm as most people appeared to have abided by coup leaders' call for a nighttime curfew.

Amadou Konare, a spokesman for the troops behind the apparent coup, asked citizens to return to their jobs Friday, though he gave no timetable as to when Mali's borders would reopen.

Earlier Thursday, Konare was among a group of soldiers wearing fatigues who said on television that they had suspended the constitution and dissolved public institutions because of the government's handling of an insurgency.

"Considering the incapacity of the regime in effectively fighting against terrorism and restoring dignity to the Malian people, using its constitutional rights, the armed forces of Mali, along with other security forces, have decided to take on their responsibilities to put an end to this incompetent regime of President Amadou Toumani Toure," said Konare.

Surgeons told an aid worker -- who asked to remain anonymous -- that 29 people who had been injured as a result of the recent unrest were in Bamako's main hospital, while another nine were in a medical facility in Kati, about 18 kilometers (11 miles) to the northwest.

1. What were some things to be seen not in the palace?
2. What was his name?
3. Who was walking in the palace?
4. What kind?
5. Who had they gotten rid of?
6. What kind of leader was he?
7. From where?
8. And where's that?
9. On what day?
10. Why was it calm by nightfall in the streets?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. the former President
2. Amadou Toumani Toure
3. soldiers
4. renegade
5. Toure
6. democratically elected
7. Mali
8. In West Africa
9. Thursday
10. due to a curfew

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"We're going to move," Jimmy said to Mr. James,her teacher, with tears in her eyes. "Dad lost his job and now we don't have enough money to live in our house." Pam was walking by and just heard Jimmy's talk with Mr.James. In the lunchroom Pam met Carol and said, "I've got something to tell you about Jimmy." As she started to tell Carol about Jimmy's dad, several other classmates stopped to listen. Pam felt bad telling what she had heard but she went on anyway. After school, Pam saw some of her classmates talking to Jimmy. "Where does your dad work?" one of the boys asked. Jimmy's face turned red. She left without answering. Pam felt terrible, because she didn't mean to hurt Jimmy. And she hadn't thought that some of the classmates would make jokes and laugh at Jimmy about her father's losing the job. Pam didn't know what she could do to help Jimmy.

1. Why was Jimmy crying?
2. What did Jimmy tell her teacher while crying?
3. Did anyone overhear them?
4. Who did?
5. Where were they talking?
6. Did Pam tell Carol anything?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. he had to move
2. his dad lost his job and now we don't have enough money to live in our house.
3. yes
4. PAm
5. the lunchroom
6. yes

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CHAPTER XI. THE ASHBURNS

Gregory Ashburn pushed back his chair and made shift to rise from the table at which he and his brother had but dined.

He was a tall, heavily built man, with a coarse, florid countenance set in a frame of reddish hair that hung straight and limp. In the colour of their hair lay the only point of resemblance between the brothers. For the rest Joseph was spare and of middle weight, pale of face, thin-lipped, and owning a cunning expression that was rendered very evil by virtue of the slight cast in his colourless eyes.

In earlier life Gregory had not been unhandsome; debauchery and sloth had puffed and coarsened him. Joseph, on the other hand, had never been aught but ill-favoured.

"Tis a week since Worcester field was fought," grumbled Gregory, looking lazily sideways at the mullioned windows as he spoke, "and never a word from the lad."

Joseph shrugged his narrow shoulders and sneered. It was Joseph's habit to sneer when he spoke, and his words were wont to fit the sneer.

"Doth the lack of news trouble you?" he asked, glancing across the table at his brother.

Gregory rose without meeting that glance.

"Truth to tell it does trouble me," he muttered.

"And yet," quoth Joseph, "tis a natural thing enough. When battles are fought it is not uncommon for men to die."

Gregory crossed slowly to the window, and stared out at the trees of the park which autumn was fast stripping.

1. What color was Gregory's hair?
2. Was it curly?
3. What did it look like, then?
4. True or False: Joseph had not always been unattractive.
5. What about Gregory?
6. Who is worried by the lack of news?
7. True or False: Gregory and Joseph were father and son.
8. How were they related?
9. What does Joseph say often happens in battles?
10. What season was it?
11. And the month?
12. Did Joseph have brown eyes?
13. How did they look, then?
14. What had the brothers just finished doing?
15. What kind of window did Gregory look out of?
16. What does the window overlook?
17. Which brother is more heavily built?
18. What was the only physical feature they shared?
19. What did Joseph often do when speaking?
20. What had made Gregory unhandsome?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. reddish
2. no
3. it hung straight and limp
4. False.
5. No, not always.
6. Gregory
7. False.
8. They were brothers.
9. men die
10. autumn
11. unknown
12. No.
13. colourless
14. dining
15. mullioned windows
16. the trees of the park
17. Gregory
18. the colour of their hair
19. he would sneer
20. debauchery and sloth