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According to a high-ranking official, the Crown Prince then retired to his sleeping quarters, where he changed into camouflage fatigues and equipped himself with an American M-16 rifle and a revolver. Using a private corridor to return to the dining room, he barged in, firing a burst that killed his parents and shooting 12 others in the room. Among those fatally injured were the Crown Prince's younger brother, Nirajan, and his sister Shruti. He then turned the revolver on himself, firing a .38-cal. slug up through his temple, the bullet exiting the other side. The shooting...
...changing Mexico just as quickly as--and maybe faster than--it was changing the U.S." Los Angeles bureau chief Terry McCarthy and photojournalist James Nachtwey spent a week with migrants, border-patrol agents and people smugglers in the desert scrub dividing Mexico and Arizona, the busiest alien-smuggling corridor along the border...
...that world, they are also a ghastly mutation. Their uncle Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, an ex-cop from the violent Pacific Coast state of Sinaloa, was the first Mexican drug capo to link up with Colombia's cocaine cartels in the 1980s. He and other druglords shared the Tijuana corridor, but after they savagely murdered DEA agent Enrique Camarena in 1985, in league with senior police and political figures, Mexican authorities put them in jail. Into Tijuana roared the seven Arellano brothers, including the handsome Benjamin, their CEO; chubby Ramon, the enforcer; finance-whiz Eduardo, 44, the money launderer...
...exhibit, entitled "2,000 Years of German-Jewish History," which includes thousands of objects depicting Jewish family and cultural life through the ages in Berlin. One area of the museum, however, remains completely empty to symbolize all that has been lost and destroyed: the Void, a concrete corridor that runs through the entire structure. "It is meant to show that even at the height of culture in Berlin, Jews and others were not accepted as full citizens," Libeskind explains. "There was prejudice, bigotry and anti-Semitism." The Void, says architectural writer Charles Jencks, "represents the unutterable or unspeakable...
...After an hour-and-a-half delayed arrival, Keren finally walked off the plane ramp. Benjie hid behind a pillar to let her pass and walk down the corridor. He snuck up behind her, jumped in front of her, and opened the ring box as he politely advised, "Excuse me, miss, I think you dropped this...