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Puppeteer Basil Twist In his Symphonie Fantastique, he dunked pieces of cloth in a giant aquarium and made them dance to Berlioz. Were it not for mimes, he would get beaten up daily...
...city's dusty outskirts. The two-bedroom apartment looked scarcely lived in. Its temporary dwellers slept on simple cots, sat on hard chairs. They had gathered to tell their stories: a middle-age doctor who had been confined to a mental institution, a peasant woman whose husband had been beaten to death. The youngest was a 12-year-old boy. His family members, he said, were neighborhood leaders of the movement. When the crackdown began, the boy arrived home from school one day to find police surrounding his house. Three weeks later, the authorities broke in to discover his grandmother...
...undesirables, including murderers, rapists and people giving jobs to illegal aliens?and offering rewards for tips. This spring, four members of Good Friends, a Seoul-based refugee aid group working in the area, were held, along with a local translator, in detention for 50 days. They say they were beaten and accused of spying. "The tension is very high right now," says Erica Kang, a spokeswoman for the group...
...Moses drills his students with the same quiet intensity he displayed in the '60s, when he was repeatedly beaten - and nearly killed - but never wavered from his path. He has hit upon a fresh, effective way to teach abstract math concepts. His method begins with physical experience, then moves to pictorial and finally symbolic representation. He teaches about integers by leading students on a tour of civil rights monuments. The kids then draw pictures of the journey and create number lines in which each stop represents an integer, and use them to add and subtract positive and negative numbers...
...ultimate bankruptcy. Lumumba was placed under house arrest, and after he escaped, was captured, tortured and turned over to Moise Tshombe who had tried to lead a secessionist movement in Katanga, the Congo's richest province. With the blessing of both Belgium and the U.S., Lumumba was nearly beaten to death, then taken out to an isolated forest and shot. His body was hacked to pieces and then dissolved in acid in order to prevent its use as a symbol by the warring political factions...