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VILLAGE PEOPLE'S policeman undergoes vocal-cord surgery, decades too late...
...heavy object and fell down. I woke up two days later at Birchenough Bridge hospital." Moyo's wife Tendai, 37, had found him bleeding and unconscious in the road and taken him to hospital on an oxcart. Both his legs and his back were broken, and his spinal cord was partly severed; he is now paralyzed below the waist. Local observers have little doubt that pro-government militias are to blame. "Moyo is a well-known MDC activist, a strong organizer, very popular," says a neighbor, Simon. "They knew that crippling him would also cripple...
...Arroyo herself called Edita Burgos to assure her that police would pursue the case aggressively. But from the start the investigation seemed to sputter. A week after the abduction, police told Burgos' mother that they'd found a corpse resembling Jonas. The man had been bound with a cord, strangled, shot twice in the skull, and dumped by a lonely country roadside. Edita Burgos insisted it was not her son. As part of their investigation, police also traced the license plate of the Toyota used by the kidnappers. They discovered that the plate had originally belonged to a vehicle...
Former Dispatch member Brad Corrigan performed in a crowded Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub last night, in a set interspersed with testimonies from victims of spinal cord injuries. Corrigan—along with the two other members of his new “solo-act” band, Braddigan—performed for Harvard Concert Commission’s (HCC) “Rock for a Reason.” In addition to playing a mix of Braddigan and Dispatch songs, the group aimed to increase awareness about spinal cord injuries. “I want to draw...
...Thursday, April 24. The night’s repertoire will feature both Braddigan songs and Dispatch favorites. In addition to performing, the band members will talk to students about their experiences in the music industry. The event’s main focus is raising awareness about spinal cord injuries by promoting a student-created Web site, SPINALpedia, which is designed to create a support resource for people with spinal cord injuries. Brittany J. Martin ’08, who developed the idea of SPINALpedia, approached the Harvard Concert Committee about inviting the band. Her father, who is a quadriplegic...