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...down a few hundred meters from their school in Yala; the four assailants then doused the bodies with gasoline and set them alight. In January, a kindergarten teacher died after eight months in a coma; she had been dragged from her class in Narathiwat by a Muslim mob and beaten until her skull shattered. And more than 300 government schools in Narathiwat were temporarily closed after insurgents killed three teachers last month. Two were women, shot dead in the school library by two gunmen while a hundred horrified children looked...
...Ewart was talking with TIME when he learned of the stay of execution. He was lauding the testimony at the hearing of civil rights advocate U.S. Rep. John Lewis, the Georgia Democrat who was severely beaten during civil rights marches in the 1960s. "I do not know Troy Anthony Davis," Lewis said in testimony, according to prepared remarks. "I do not know if he is guilty of the charges of which he has been convicted. But I do know that nobody should be put to death based on the evidence we now have in this case...
...Still, detractors see the appointment as designed to increase discord among the Socialists. Many in the party had seen DSK, beaten in the party's primary, as the rival best-placed to defeat the vanquished presidential candidate, Segolene Royal, in her push to take over the party's leadership...
...police, who shorten their two- or three-word names to acronyms, they have been linked to at least eight deaths in the last two years, not to mention numerous serious assaults, car theft, drug dealing, burglary and extortion. Victims have been run over and dragged under a van, beaten with baseball bats, or stabbed. The cases are before the courts...
...heads and long faces of the vanquished, but not the deflation and self-doubt that can last for months. For sports people, the climb out of the pit happens faster when they can find some positives amid the gloom. In the case of the sailors of Team New Zealand, beaten by the Swiss Alinghi team last week in the America's Cup, that should be easy...