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...condemned's neck; it sometimes took as long as eight minutes for the hanged to die. New ropes brought in for later executions jerked harder on the convicted person's spine, but executioners soon noticed the cords fraying on the bend of the reinforced steel installed in the cement ceiling of the gallows. During a recent round of executions, on Sept. 6, the rope snapped after 12 hangings, sending a condemned man plummeting 15 ft. through the trap door onto the hard concrete floor below. Miraculously, he survived. "Allah saved me!" he shouted. "Allah saved me!" For 40 minutes, prison...
...once referred to as Junior, he can also thank Bush for bringing him back to center stage at a time of genuine national crisis. Baker has held three Cabinet posts, overseen a fourth agency and run five presidential campaigns. Untying the Gordian knot that is Iraq would cement his reputation as one of the nation's premier wise men of the past 30 years...
...have turned to for radical thinking, or owning anything abroad. The group's founder, J.N. Tata, was a nationalist driven by the idea of a strong, self-reliant India. He gave the country its first steel plant, first hydroelectric plant, first textile mill, first shipping line, first cement factory, first science university, even its first world-class hotel. His successors - among them J.R.D. Tata, India's first pilot - created the first airline, first motor company, first bank and first chemical plant. But after independence in 1947, the group came to symbolize all that was bad about Indian business. It lost...
...from the beginning, that vision meant convincing over-achieving students to turn down oak-paneled offices for cement walls and playgrounds. In a letter to applicants, the fledgling corps wrote: “[We] passed up jobs in management consulting and investment banking and Senators’ offices to create” TFA. Kopp set out to convince students to do the same...
...ably filled his place, sailing ten races in the B-division Saturday. Skipper Johnson and crew Kristen Lynch returned Sunday but raced only once as weather led to the cancellation of seven of the day’s eight scheduled races. Nevertheless, that one race was enough to cement a third-place finish for the Crimson in the B-division. The uncooperative weather frustrated the ambitions of juniors Kyle Kovacs and Elyse Dolbec. The shortened regatta left the boat in eighth place in the A-division, resulting in an overall eighth-place finish for the Crimson...