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...Chinese Army killed Palder's grandmother, grandfather and his aunt, Palder said. He fled Tibet in 1959 to India while his father was still in prison...
Aside, perhaps, from that lightning-bolt-shaped scar on his forehead, Harry Potter will seem familiar to anyone who has ever read a decent fairy tale. Harry, 11, is an orphan who lives with his aunt and uncle, Petunia and Vernon Dursley, and their son Dudley. Is it worth pointing out that the Dursleys are as dreadful as one might expect of people named Dursley--they make that step-family of Cinderella's seem merely ill-tempered by comparison--and that young Dudley is a fat, spoiled bully who keeps breaking Harry's glasses...
Kosovar civilians appeared to be in even more jeopardy. On the Kosovo-Macedonia border, refugee flows sped up. "We walked 21 hours through the snow," Jrfete Jdrizi, 20, said as she stood near the border with her 75-year-old aunt. "I was almost crawling at the end." But reports trickling out of the province from aid workers and refugees described a horror show of massacres, forced marches and destroyed villages. The tales were hard to confirm, but early CIA findings seemed to buttress the allegations. News of the possible atrocities set off the spin machine at the White House...
...camcorders when they arrived in 1995. Yet fewer than 1% of home users have bought one. The rigs are not only expensive--the low end finally dropped below $1,000 this year--but they're also incompatible with the other two formats. What happens to those tapes of Aunt Sonya's 80th-birthday party...
That's where Sony's recent introduction of digital Hi8 cameras comes in, I explained to my wife. The cameras are backwards compatible and can play 8-mm or Hi8 tapes. You can even connect your old 8-mm camera to the Digital8, convert your old analog Aunt Sonya movies to digital and inflict them on future generations. The new Sony cameras have CD-like sound recording as well. And the four models are relatively cheap, starting at $799 and running as high as $1,299. The high-end unit, which features a nifty still-image feature and comes bundled...