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...into Harvard? We’re your family now, united by a love of money, high SAT scores, and a lifelong insecurity complex that seeks a confirmation of status and worth that could never be found in the arms of a parent or friend. You’ll die alone, but you’ll die snuggled inside a quilted Harvard afghan and you’ll be buried with your class ring—until marauding bands of grave robbers snap it from your decaying finger. But seriously kids, use those red phones...
...possible that an influx of Chinese immigrants and modernization could mean that such events - and the protests of March 2008 - could eventually be forgotten. "What happened last year is now part of our history too. Even my son's sons and their sons will remember after I die. They will hate the government too. We will never forget...
...Enrico Mentana, the most respected newsman on Berlusconi's Mediaset network, abruptly announced his resignation after company executives refused his request to cut into a reality television show following the death of Eluana Englaro, a comatose Udinese woman whose right-to-die case had riveted the nation. Almost immediately, Mediaset accused Mentana of striking a deal to go to Murdoch's All-News Italian station...
...Like so many of her generation, Klang Sokhan lost numerous relatives during the regime that ruled Cambodian from 1975 to 1979, when an estimated 1.7 million people died, including her son and daughter who were 5 and 4 when they succumbed to starvation. For Klang Sokhan, the complexities and the slow pace of the U.N.-backed tribunal proceedings do not assuage her anger - or her thirst for revenge. "The court is difficult to understand. It's too complicated. What people want is for them to die," she said of Duch and the four other Khmer Rouge leaders now in detention...
...James, a researcher at the University of Leicester in the U.K., claims to have found the first physical evidence of chemical weaponry, dating from a battle fought in A.D. 256 at an ancient Roman fortress. James concluded that 20 Roman soldiers unearthed beneath the town's ramparts did not die of war wounds, as previous archaeologists had assumed, but from poison...