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...images, relayed via the Internet, shocked even human rights activists well aware of such abuses. "The video is very traumatic and powerful," says human rights activist Aida Seif El Dawla, of the Nadeem Center for the management and rehabilitation of victims of violence in Cairo. "You are watching real rape," she adds, explaining that when she started mapping incidents of police torture back in 1993 she realized that the practice was widespread all across the country. "To read and to hear is one thing, but to see is extremely shocking," she says...
...Stinetorf added. “They’re dynamic and can change what they’re doing on the strip.” Cross said that her most challenging opponent this year was not Errigo, whom she has now defeated in the last two years running, but Aida Chanaeva of Russia, who she managed to beat 15-14 in the quarterfinals. “I knew that would be a really tough bout and I’ve always had a really tough time fencing her,” Cross said. “After I won that...
...show picks up with the characters somewhat over a year after we left them. Erstwhile hippie Janice (Aida Turturro) is settling into domestic life as a Mafia wife. Daughter Meadow (Jamie-Lynn DiScala) is still with boyfriend Finn (Will Janowitz) and looking ahead to life after college, while nihilist son A.J. (Robert Iler) is taking cellphone pictures of himself instead of studying in class. Carmela has settled into a melancholy peace with having chosen the good (but bad) life with Tony over being a poor-but-noble divorcee. Silvio (Steven Van Zandt) and Paulie Walnuts (Tony Sirico) are still...
...turbulent passions that animate the role [of Isolde] ... Apparently a more severe critic of herself than some of Manhattan's reviewers, Soprano Nilsson said later: 'After the first act I was just physically tired, and my throat was dry. The first act is as hard as all of Aida' ... Next season she will return for another of her favorites, Puccini's Turandot. 'I could sing Turandot right now,' said she coolly as she walked offstage after last week's marathon performance. What did she think of her Met ovation? 'I didn't believe my ears,' said Birgit Nilsson. 'I thought...
...volume of orders that prompted the stock exchange?s early closing, Takuji Aida, Chief Economist at Barclays Capital Japan, blames undisciplined individual investors-a category that Livedoor?s CEO Takafumi Horie helped cultivate. As in the United States seven years ago, the rise of Japan?s Internet sector has stoked a surge in online brokerage companies and individual stock investing. According to some estimates, individual investors now account for 50% of the Japanese market?s total trading volume. ?Many Japanese households have started to join in the stock market, and a lot of money went into technology stock shares,? says...