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...former prime ministers. Then Gandhi declared that she would decline the post she had just won, prompting members of her party to descend on her home in droves, some of them writing letters in their own blood urging her to change her mind, others threatening to commit suicide if she did not assume the leadership of the country...

Author: By Eoghan W. Stafford, | Title: Our Manmohan in India | 5/26/2004 | See Source »

...would be contradictory to commit, with this film, sins for which Christ died." Frantisek Tondra, Slovakian Bishop, rebuking religious leaders and activists for screening pirated copies of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

...need to also really commit some energy to enhancing the extracurricular experience and making sure there are resources for student groups,” Mahan added...

Author: By Katharine A. Kaplan and Joshua P. Rogers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: College To Review Student Activities | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

...stew while bigger networks raided its youth niche with reality shows. In the ultimate WB indignity, it was Fox that landed last year's hot teen soap with "The O.C." Network CEO Jordan Levin flatly apologized to advertisers, in particular by practically promising to commit ritual suicide for having decided, last year, to focus on scripted rather than reality shows. "We will never make that mistake again," he pledged, mustering as much contrition as an entire administration did over the Abu Ghraib scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The WB Wants Young People. ABC Will Take Anyone Who'll Have It | 5/19/2004 | See Source »

...enterprise. According to a Justice Department inspector-general's report, Muslim detainees at the Brooklyn, N.Y., Metropolitan Detention Center after 9/11 were physically and verbally abused by some staff members. Meanwhile, there have been at least 32 suicide attempts by Guantanamo detainees, and one of those who tried to commit suicide ended up in a coma. In three cases in Iraq and Afghanistan currently under investigation by the Justice Department, detainees died during or after questioning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: What Works and What Doesn't Work: The Rules Of Interrogation | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

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