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...portrait of Ho--the same that appeared in the first-year facebook--sat in front of the 20-year-old biology concentrator's coffin, in front of a portrait of Amitabha, the buddha for the afterlife...
When they finally found Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, he was hiding in the dark, lying alone in a space not much bigger than a coffin. For four hours police had searched the unlighted interior of Satian No. 6 (satian is Sanskrit for "supreme truth"), a warehouse in an Aum compound near Mount Fuji. Then an investigator tapped on a wall and found a hollow spot. Police cut in with an electric saw and discovered a bearded man in a deep pink pajama suit lying in a compartment about 10 ft. long and 3 ft. high...
...darkened doorway of an abandoned building, the medical team finds an empty coffin, waiting like carrion. One by one, neighbors explain, the family that lived there died. First the daughter, 18, went to the Kikwit 2 maternity hospital in late March for a caesarean section. When she got home her incision began to bleed. Then her organs began to melt. The red-black sludge wiggled out of her eyes, her nose, her mouth. Soon her parents got sick. Her father, some villagers believe, died of horror: he told his wife that if she died, he would...
...life. She was widely known and deeply loved, for her medical skill and her kindness. She often found clothes for the very poor, and food. When she died her body was carried all through the hospital, and then through town to the cathedral, where she lay in an open coffin for two days so her friends could view the body. They stood over her and wept, caressed her face, sang her praises. It was the end of April, and no one knew what had killed her. But they would soon find...
...this point, they knew the hope of making the tournament was over. The loss earlier to Yale opened up the coffin, and Dartmouth was the nail...