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...cracks to the head before police officers dragged him by his dreadlocks for nearly a kilometer, until they reached a police station where they thrashed him with their batons and ripped out his matted tresses with their bare hands. Khumalo and two other protesters were then blindfolded and driven 20 km out of town, beaten again and dumped in the bush. "They were saying, 'What you chaps started is war,'" Khumalo says. Khumalo's ordeal is just one skirmish in President Robert Mugabe's long, bloody war on dissent. Over the past six weeks, Mugabe's ruling Zimbabwe African National...
...This could be driven by competition over unformed brainiacs with law schools and even Stanford Business School, which has always trended younger,” said Sanford Kreisberg, an independent admissions consultant who runs a much-followed thread on Business Week’s website about elite business school admissions called “ASKANDY.” “Ivy grads with nose-bleed GPAs and unclear career goals used to be hired for two years by investment banks and consulting shops during the boom. Now those kids, by default, go to law school...
...persuade Beijing to free these men thus far have “added up to empty words.” “The agenda, the timing, [and] the proceedings” related to Yang’s case, he tells me, have all “been driven by China.” Fu says, “I feel that [State officials] can do more, but I know they are trying very hard...
Those experiments, however, are often driven by dire need. When a child is suffering or suicidal, is it fair not to turn to the prescription pad in conjunction with therapy? Is it even safe? Untreated depression has a lifetime suicide rate of 15%--with still more deaths caused by related behaviors like self-medicating with alcohol and drugs. Kids with severe and untreated ADHD have been linked, according to some studies, to higher rates of substance abuse, dropping out of school and trouble with the law. Bipolar kids have a tendency to injure and kill themselves and others with uncontrolled...
Wearing only street clothes and a parka, KIRK JONES climbed a guard rail, slid into the Niagara River and plummeted headfirst over the 173-ft. Horseshoe Falls--becoming the first known person to survive the drop with no protection. He acknowledged that depression may have driven him to do it, but enthused, "I feel that I have reached out and touched the face of God. And he smiled...