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...military last week launched its massive campaign to crush the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM). As the gravediggers maneuvered Khairurrazi's body onto its side to face Mecca, blood seeped through his shroud. Khairurrazi, always a thin, sickly youth, had expected an illness to kill him. Instead, he was beaten and bayoneted, then shot in the head. "Half his skull was blown off," weeped his mother, Ramla, clutching a Muslim prayer book. "I had to pick up my poor boy's brains and put them back in his head...
...tickets the Senior Class Committee secured to the Yankees-Red Sox game. It was a first-come, first-served competition over e-mail. A friend sent an e-mail at 8:00:09, instead of 8:00:00 and still managed to get beaten. About 1000 seniors tried to get one of 200 precious tickets...
...deceit and thuggery, his gains also came through the ballot box. Without excusing its subject, Hitler shows why Germans followed him--some out of fear or opportunism, yes, but some because, for all his hate mongering, he and his Nazis were a party of optimism and vitality in a beaten-down, cynical nation. When he voices his twisted but near religious belief in Germanic exceptionalism--"Do you think there are any Jews in Valhalla?"--one can despise him while understanding the source of his power. He is the personification of Yeats' line: the worst, but full of passionate intensity...
...definitely would have helped to have Alexis,” Bergman said. “If we had [her], it would have been a different match. Even at that, we definitely could have beaten them today...
Scribot was ranked No. 5 in the nation and was a Pac-10 singles semifinalist. She had beaten the No. 1 players from Stanford, Southern California, Washington, and California during the dual season. Bergman was an unknown commodity in comparison...