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...Bulgarian capital was brought to a standstill by thousands of cab drivers protesting the abduction and killing of a taxi driver's three-year-old son. Interior Minister Emanuil Yordanov said he would resign if police did not find the boy's killer within days. The discovery of the child's body in a city park only hours after his street abduction provoked widespread anger among citizens who say authorities do little to curb violent crime. Prime Minister Ivan Kostov said parliament would hold an extraordinary meeting to discuss the crisis, amid opposition calls for the government's resignation...
These country girls have eyes like hunters, says the cab driver, turning into an unlit lane of liquidambar trees in Kunming's Golden Star neighborhood. "They can easily spot the men wanting sex." The taxi pulls over, and a young woman sashays out from behind the trees. She's wearing a cherry-colored blouse, tight white slacks and a cloud of cloying perfume. Her name is Little Jade, and she behaves less like a predator than prey, glancing nervously up and down the lane for cops - and, with equal apprehension, at the taxi's passengers...
...just over 50% of Serbs would agree to send Milosevic to the Hague if the alternative were losing Western aid. At the same time, the perils of even local prosecution are becoming clear. Not long ago, gunmen fired (unsuccessfully) at the vehicle carrying the new Interior Minister; earlier, the driver of the new head of state security was shot as he waited for his boss outside Djindjic's office...
...Andrew Williams. She didn't shoplift booze or boast of pulling a Columbine. Bush was a quiet eighth-grader who attended Bishop Neumann High School in Williamsport, Pa., a cozy Roman Catholic school that holds spaghetti suppers and sock hops. A stickler for safety, Bush lectured the school bus driver for speeding through railroad crossings. She tacked posters of Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King Jr. to her bedroom walls and affixed pictures of the Columbine victims to the bulletin board over her desk. Her parents say she wanted to be a human-rights activist...
...interest in student safety isn't compelling enough to force it to comply with these measure, then its interest in maintaining its reputation and its bank accounts should still be reason enough to comply. If students are injured on an illegally overcrowded shuttle bus, both the University and the driver could potentially be held liable, sullying Harvard's name and placing a dent in its financial reserves...