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...locked in a cell and raped repeatedly. “Five or six soldiers would come every day. Some insisted on not wearing condoms,” Kang said. “Once when I protested, he hit me hard on my head and broke my finger. From that day on my nose bleeds all the time. Whenever someone got sick or died they would just drag the girl out like a dog.” Kang was most emotional when talking about her homeland, which she said she did not see again until 2000. “Maybe...
...morning after the story broke, a glum-looking Mahoney, his wife sitting to his left, spent a minute and a half reading from a prepared statement and declining to answer questions, offering little details beyond accepting "the full responsibility for my actions and the pain I have caused" family members. "I'm sorry that these allegations have caused embarrassment and heartache," he said, moments before calling on the House Ethics Committee to investigate the "false allegations." "I want to be clear that I have not misused campaign funds, and I am confident that when all the facts come to light...
...boss is looking to replace her, Lu Qingmin quits her job in a factory's human resources department: "In August 2004, two months after she arrived, Min collected her pay and left without telling anyone... she spent the night in a hotel near her factory; while she slept, someone broke the lock on her door. The thief took nine hundred yuan [about $130] and Min's mobile phone, the only place where she had stored the numbers of everyone she knew in the city: the ex-colleague who was her only link to her new job, the friends...
...Harvard Kennedy School Democratic Caucus, Harvard College Democrats, Harvard Business School Democrats, and Harvard Law School Democrats. Jarret A. Zafran ’09, president of the Harvard College Democrats, stressed the event’s goal of “unification,” saying that the format broke down barriers between the different Harvard schools and between faculty and students. Attendees included not only Harvard affiliates but also students from other schools in the Boston area, as well as community residents. The event featured speeches by prominent Harvard faculty supporters of Obama, such as Kennedy school lecturer Linda...
...difficult to stop arms trafficking, because there is no control," says Griffiths, who has researched Ukraine's arsenal for the U.S. government. Although NATO funds Ukraine to destroy its stockpiles, "the Ukrainians realize how much money they can make by selling surplus weapons," he says. In an action that broke no laws, the Ukrainians shipped about 40,000 Kalashnikov rifles to Kenya last year during the tense standoff following the country's disputed presidential election...