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...around 65 km/h when she crashed into German coach Markus Anwander. Both sustained head injuries, and Cavagnoud went into cardiac arrest. Two days later she died. Germany's World combined champion Martina Ertl spoke for many of her fellow competitors when she said, "This is a brutal shock...
...concerned about security these days, but will arming everybody with stun guns really make us safer? The weapons have been linked to more than a dozen deaths and outlawed in seven states. Amnesty International has labeled them "tools of torture" and called for a worldwide ban. In one notoriously brutal incident, New York City cops zapped a teenager several dozen times. The teen filed suit and won a $600,000 settlement...
...wonder actors are such masochists; most of their working lives are spent in auditions, selling themselves and not making the sale. The It Factor (Bravo, Sundays, 9 p.m.) follows 12 young New York thesps, culled from a brutal audition process (3,500 applied). Some were famous years ago: Daisy Eagan won a Tony when she was 11. Some have tried it all: Godfrey Danchimah, a witty charmer, has done films, TV and stand-up. Others have great dimples: we'd cast Latarsha Rose in our next romantic comedy or dinner date...
...Nikkei could slip below the Dow Jones industrial average for the first time in 44 years--a historic crossroads that drives home just how brutal Japan's 12-year bear market has been and how thoroughly economies can change. At the Nikkei peak the Dow was at just 2,753, trailing its Pacific rival by an astounding 36,163 points. Now, as the Nikkei sheds fur like a sheepdog in spring, the unthinkable is coming to pass: parity. The two trade near...
SIERRA LEONE End to a Brutal War President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah declared the country's civil war officially over and agreed to establish a special court to try those most responsible for atrocities during the decade-long conflict. The tribunal's most prominent indictee is likely to be rebel leader Foday Sankoh, who was captured after British troops intervened in Sierra Leone nearly two years ago. Celebrations marking the end of hostilities took place just days after the U.N. announced the completion of its disarmament program with the handover of weapons by 47,000 combatants...