Word: deadness
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...early lead in the freshman eight grand final and never looked back. Thus the bulk of the drama involved the fight for the second place, as the field remained even for the first 300 meters. The Crimson got off to an unfavorable start, finding itself in dead last after 500 meters, but it then began to challenge for a medal.“Looked like they got off to an atrocious start…it looked terrible,” Manning said.With 750 meters remaining, Cornell and Harvard were gaining ground on second-place Brown, and a frantic sprint...
...president of a Seoul-based organization called the North Korean Gulag Shutdown Movement, spent four years in Yodok for trying to escape the country. "I was always hungry and cold," he says, recalling life in the camp. He remembers scavenging for dead rodents and snakes to eat. "When I found one, that would be a good day," he says. At his camp, it "was normal for the prison guards to be cruel. No one had hope or cared about anything," says Kim, who was finally released. The camps' pervasive sense of hopelessness is a common theme woven through many defectors...
...attacks are increasing all over the country. Last week a bomb-and-shoot ambush left three soldiers dead near the main U.S. base in Bagram, about an hour's drive north of Kabul, the third such strike in the area in less than a week. Two days earlier, a pair of bombings in eastern Paktika province killed 10 Afghan security guards traveling in a convoy, underscoring the dangers faced by Afghan forces who too often remain underequipped and overexposed. (Watch a video on the challenge for the U.S. military in Afghanistan...
...dead terrorist and his handler become TV stars? In Dunham's show, debuting in October, Achmed visits an elementary school. A suicide bomber and kindergartners: if that's funny, Dunham's not the only one who has come a long...
...founder Thubten Yeshe. Their methods will be familiar to anyone who has seen Bernardo Bertolucci's Little Buddha or the current documentary Unmistaken Child: The monks reportedly heeded some dreams; the Dalai Lama consulted an oracle; and the capper was that young Hita "recalled" the color of the dead lama's car. (See pictures of the Dalai Lama: Six decades of spiritual leadership...