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...Finkbeiner said that after Harvard offered him a position, Elizabeth Ancarana, assistant dean for faculty development, contacted him and his wife to ask if she could offer any assistance...
...didn't know Elizabeth Bolden, who died quietly on Monday in a Memphis nursing home. But I bet she had some stories. If you figure that every week brings something to remember, she'd have had more than 6,000 tales to tell by the time she passed away at the age of 116, the oldest person on earth. She had lived in three different centuries, a witness to the fortunes and follies of five generations. She got to see Halley's comet pass by - twice...
...seized me at gunpoint and handcuffed my hands behind my back," said Sergeant Viliame Lotawa of the night he was taken from the police station. "I was punched, kicked and beaten with blunt objects such as rifle butts and iron rods. I was beaten all the way to [Queen Elizabeth Barracks]." Lotawa says his attackers included a former Fijian rugby international, Sergeant Jack Komaitai. Komaitai told Time last week there was no truth to the allegation. Another survivor, Metuisela Railumu, told the court he was taken by soldiers to a shooting range and "beaten with wood and iron rods...
...During the mutiny by members of the elite Counter-Revolutionary Warfare unit, three loyalist soldiers were shot and-in an experience which some officers say has haunted him ever since-Bainimarama was hunted by armed rebels through a jungle-choked valley behind Suva's Queen Elizabeth Barracks. After the barracks were retaken, loyalists rounded up CRW soldiers regardless of whether they had taken part in the mutiny. Selesitino and the other soldiers allegedly fell victim to a violent paroxysm of revenge...
...DIED. Perry Henzell, 70, Jamaican director whose 1972 movie The Harder They Come, the first-ever Jamaican-produced feature film, introduced reggae to a global audience; in St. Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica. The movie, featuring songs like You Can Get It If You Really Want and Many Rivers to Cross, helped pave the way for Bob Marley's international breakthrough and launched the career of singer Jimmy Cliff...