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...cost nearly 2,000 lives. Strikes by thousands of Maoists on isolated security force bases left no survivors. Battlefield beheadings?of army and police, and fallen comrades whose identity they wanted to protect?became commonplace. And when 5,000 rebels attacked two police bases in the midwestern district of Dang on April 11, they press-ganged children and old people from nearby villages to serve as human shields. The tactic failed: the police and army fired back indiscriminately, even using a helicopter gunship equipped with American-supplied night-vision goggles. Ninety-two policemen and about 100 Maoists died in this...
...comrades after death to prevent identification. Though we do not know for certain why they are doing this, one thing is certain. Mutilation is a policy of the Maoists. We have found decapitated Maoists after several large Maoists attacks in the past few months. Decapitated bodies were found at Dang and at Salleri as well. At the very least this is a clear demonstration of their inhumanity...
...Every time we see something devastating, it brings back the sleepless nights, the nightmares, the whole dang ball of wax," says Paul Howell, who lost his 28-year-old daughter Karan Shepherd in the bombing. Howell, like Doris Jones, 53, knew immediately after the recent attacks that he would go to New York City to help. Both of them made the trip, sponsored by the Red Cross. Three times a day, they escorted grieving family members on tours of ground zero...
...wanted to be perfect at my new school," said Uyen Khanh Quang-Dang '02 of her first year at Harvard...
Coffee mogul Dang Le Nguyen Vu, 31, owes much of the success of his 400-outlet-strong Trung Nguyen franchise to reviving Ca Phe Chon. According to legend, the chon (weasel) would eat the choicest coffee beans, then digest the outer shells, leaving the innards to, um, emerge in long strings. Farmers collected the beans and roasted them?presumably after a thorough washing?to make a rich brew. While Vietnam isn't alone in making such coffee (Indonesia has beans predigested by civets), Vu has brought Ca Phe Chon back in a more sanitary incarnation. He processes the beans...