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...create chaos while saying that they are maintaining Islamic values." On the streets outside the campuses, intimidation is also rife. When more than 10,000 people gathered outside Tehran University on Students' Day, they were constantly moved on by police wielding truncheons. Shirazi helped one woman who had been beaten limp out of the fray; she saw another arrested by plainclothes security agents and taken away. "Don't tell us how to live, what to wear, what to eat and what not to eat!" she said. Her frustration with the regime is widely shared among ordinary Tehranis. But people have...
...After conceding that Larry’s team had, in fact, played the better game, my dad paused and muttered: ‘I still wish we could have beaten the shit...
...wins haven’t been close, and even the close ones haven’t been all that difficult—the Crimson has trailed just once in its victories this year and has never trailed in the third period. Simply put, Harvard hasn’t just beaten the teams it is supposed to, it has manhandled most of them...
...motive. Retired detective Gerry O'Carroll, who was in the police unit that carried out surveillance on the General, believes Cahill wanted to embarrass the Irish government. "He hated the State because of what happened to him as a child in [reform] school," O'Carroll says. "He had been beaten like an animal, and abused. Carrying out a 'spectacular' was his revenge." But the heist proved to be Cahill's undoing. He hooked up with the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force to get rid of the paintings - and that made him an I.R.A. target. He was killed in 1994, the victim...
...just age, however, that makes Kim appear frail. When he came to office nearly five years ago, he was a towering moral figure?Asia's Nelson Mandela, according to his many admirers. Jailed, beaten and threatened with death, he was the face of the struggle for democracy in South Korea. You felt he had the chance to become not just a good President but a great one. But with barely three months to go before he hands over power to the winner of South Korea's Dec. 19 presidential election, Kim has become a lonely, almost tragic figure, deeply unpopular...