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Both the president and the student, Saad Saadi, have apologized. But Gutmann, the daughter of a Jewish metallurgist who fled Nazi Germany in 1934, is drawing fire from pro-Israel leaders. The Zionist Organization of America wrote in a letter to the president: “Would you have done the same if he had come dressed as the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan...
...appeared to be carrying a handgun, then threw him to the ground and ordered him to give up his possessions. After handing over his wallet and cell phone, the victim reported, one of the suspects then struck him in the head with the handgun. The suspects then fled the scene. According to the release, the victim was treated for “minor injuries” before being released. The victim was not able to provide detailed descriptions of the suspects to police. The incident, which took place at an intersection that borders the Radcliffe Quad campus, came only...
...Nicosia in the southern part of Cyprus, was awoken by intruders. They took him, his wife[an error occurred while processing this directive] and 15-year-old daughter into a waiting car, drove them to a deserted highway pull-off, and shot them in the head. The murderers then fled across the "green line" that has divided Cyprus since 1974. For a moment, it seemed that justice might take its course. Turkish-Cypriot police, in the north of the island, arrested the occupants of an unregistered car matching the description of a vehicle at the crime scene. But when prosecutors...
...thing about celebrities is that they always have such high-class problems, right? The Rolls gets a flat, the maid gets a book deal. Not so, actually. Saturday Night Live comedian MAYA RUDOLPH and her movie-director boyfriend Paul Thomas Anderson recently fled their $13,500-a-month New York City loft--with their infant--because of bugs. Not the spy kind, the bite-you-in-your-bed kind. All together now: eeeeeew. Also, the elevator didn't work. Naturally, they're suing. And the bugs are looking for a book deal...
...Luong Du fled Saigon, Vietnam, when he was 17, stopping in a Malaysian refugee camp before making it to Edmonton, Alberta in 1979. It was in Canada that Lu met his wife, Phuong. Like Lu, Phuong was ethnically Chinese but an immigrant from Saigon. In fact, both had initially wished to wind up in Australia—for the weather, of course—and had picked Canada, with its relatively lenient policy for sponsoring families, as their second choice. The pair was married in 1984, the middle of a decade that belonged to the local Edmonton Oilers. The franchise...