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...purview. It investigated only 83 cases out of hundreds of unexplained deaths because many of the victims' families were suspicious or too discouraged after years of failing to get answers. It solved only 34. "Too many cases were left unsolved," admits commission president Hang Sang Beom. "This is a blow against democratic reform." (The infamous 1980 Kwangju massacre was investigated by another body that ended its work last year. The government paid compensation of $190 million to victims and victims' families, although critics say the official death toll of fewer than 200 people is grossly understated...
...auto assembly plant owned jointly by GM and Toyota had to stop production for lack of engines and transmissions, idling 5,100 workers. Such retailers as the Gap, Target and Wal-Mart, which expect to do 40% of their annual business during the holiday season, would suffer a blow to their profits from any long disruption in supplies of toys, apparel and appliances from the Far East...
...July telling students accepted under early decision at other schools that they had to withdraw all other applications. The furor died down, and the conversation about how to end early decision resumed with little reference to Harvard’s now-dead idea that could have dealt the fatal blow...
Gessner, who had been limited to short catches up until that point, ran an out-and-up on the right side to blow by the coverage and catch a 27-yard touchdown pass from Slager in the end zone. However, Brown kicker Paul Christian missed his second extra point of the day and the Bears were limited to a 12-0 lead...
...multiculturalism says all cultures are equal, that idea took a heavy blow when the World Trade towers came down,” Mansfield says...