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...What about a child's disappearance? Is that even worse than a child's known death? The answer depends of course on the outcome. A vanishing, like that of Chandra Levy in Washington D.C. seven weeks ago, must in some ways compound the evil. It torments the parents by holding out the faintest possibility of hope. It condemns them to dangle in a state of anguish amounting to suspended animation. Gradually, their hope may brown out and expire, the way that a flashlight does as the batteries slowly go dead...
...guerrillas would have been forced to surrender the hostages they had plucked from an island resort a few days before. But commanders dropped the ball big time. Sometime before dawn the following day, the 200 Abu Sayyaf fighters escaped through the rear wall of the hospital and church compound. One Lamitan woman, awakened by the sound of footsteps in the lane, peered out to see the guerrillas stalking by. "They just walked away with their hostages," she later said. "Nobody challenged them...
...death of the King and nine other members of the royal family is the question that continues to confuse and convulse the landlocked country at the foot of Mount Everest more than a week after the gruesome, predinner slaughter at the King's Narahiti royal palace compound in Kathmandu. An official probe being worked on over the weekend to reach a verdict will probably put the blame on an allegedly intoxicated and unhinged Crown Prince Dipendra, who was found fatally wounded near the scene of the massacre and named King while on life support, expiring at a military hospital after...
...compound Graham's worries, after squeaking by with a win in the doubles, Harvard lost its first two singles matches and trailed in three others after a set. It appeared as though Harvard would only win Bajin's point at first singles (who cruised to a 6-2, 6-0 victory to knot the match at 2-2) after an hour into singles action...
...McCain blasted the GOP - and the White House - for the way Jeffords was treated. Then he communed over the weekend at his compound outside Sedona, Ariz., with the new Senate majority leader, the Democrats' Tom Daschle - a visit that sent Washington into paroxysms of speculation and forced the White House to call McCain's office to make sure he wasn't leaving the party. And what is Bush's response to McCain's distemper? A blistering rebuke? Not quite. McCain has been invited to a private dinner tonight at the White House. As one pro-Bush GOP operative said...