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...vividly exposed by a gang of four murderers in the central province of Henan who evaded capture for months in 2000. Their modus operandi was to break into homes using battering rams. Once inside, they killed the inhabitants, frequently castrating male victims with cleavers. They left behind calling cards: cloth masks with eye holes burned out by cigarettes. But the gang's deadly spree was province-wide, and there was insufficient coordination between police forces of the various towns and districts. In addition, the gang confused the police with a surprisingly simple ruse. "The killers changed shoes for each crime...
...kitchenware department of Paris' famed La Samaritaine store, Herry Andriavaloherinaiva, 35, is looking intently through the racks of ceramic bowls and cloth napkins. Like thousands of other Parisians mobbing the stores during the after-Christmas sales, Andriavaloherinaiva is braving not just France's frosty weather but an equally chilly economic climate in his pursuit of a bargain. He is unfazed by the downturn that has led some economists to predict France's GDP growth could be as low as .9% in 2003. "I'm not worried," he says. "I still have the same spending pattern as always." But many government...
...past five years, including stints at the Gap in Harvard Square. Yet his Mather dorm room has taken on a very un-Banana tone since he desperately sought to fill his empty common room in his first year. At a fabric store he found a giant leopard-print cloth that has graced the walls of his Harvard pads ever since. “It’s really not my style,” he insists, “but it has stayed with...
...Times declined to explain the peacefulness of Florence and, with this lack of creativity, actually grasped the truth which eluded some European news sources: Florence was of a different cloth than Genoa. Florence was a strategy and networking session for a new European left. Fifty-five thousand people from 88 countries gathered for five days of multi-lingual debate attempting to articulate their new-found unity. They continued a conversation sparked by Genoa and formalized at this spring’s World Social Forum in Brazil. The expectation of violence lay in the mischaracterization of the gathering...
...Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which opens tonight in the Kronauer Space. Carmichael, who co-directs the show with Moss B. Bittner ’02-’03, is very serious as she discusses the movements of her actor—a puppet constructed from cardboard, cloth, air-dry clay, human hair and, she adds, “mostly duct tape...