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...Wednesday morning, approximately four hours before he was killed, Furtado was seen by neighbor Fay DeFrancesco entering another neighbor’s backyard, where he cut the home’s phone and cable lines. Several minutes later, he spoke with DeFrancesco’s daughter and admitted to cutting the cables. DeFrancesco notified police...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Cambridge Police Kill Man | 7/19/2002 | See Source »

...Xishuangbanna is seen as a kind of backyard Thailand by the Chinese, with 2.5 million mainlanders visiting last year to marvel at its tropical lushness and vibrant minorities. "A lot of Thais are coming now too, many to revisit their Dai roots," says Chai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spot | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

According to Bonneville County sheriff Byron Stommel, a 14-year-old girl who had been sleeping with her sisters on the family's backyard trampoline was abducted at gunpoint during the night by Keith Glenn Hescock, 42. After allegedly assaulting her at his home and chaining her to a bed, Hescock went to his day job as a traveling tool salesman. The girl found a nearby fire extinguisher, beat at the chain for several hours to break it, freed herself and then, perhaps because her family's home line was busy, called her parents' office. The employee who answered picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taken From Home | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...another. They are dealing with one another constantly, making treaties and trading currencies and whatever else it is they do. The World Cup is mildly entertaining because you get to see them sublimate their little issues by kicking a ball at one another, sort of like watching your children backyard-wrestle. Senegal beats France, and the Senegalese throw a huge party venting their anger over two centuries of French colonialism. Imagine how much fun it is for anyone to act superior to the French, and multiply that by Senegal. And last Friday England and Argentina got to work out whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rest-of-the-World Cup | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...another. They are dealing with one another constantly, making treaties and trading currencies and whatever else it is they do. The World Cup is mildly entertaining because you get to see them sublimate their little issues by kicking a ball at one another, sort of like watching your children backyard-wrestle. Senegal beats France, and the Senegalese throw a huge party venting their anger over two centuries of French colonialism. Imagine how much fun it is for anyone to act superior to the French, and multiply that by Senegal. And last Friday England and Argentina got to work out whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rest-of-the-World Cup | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

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