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...work of Andrew Cunanan, authorities said late Thursday. Police now say the doctor, who died from "trauma" to the upper part of his body, not a gunshot wound, may have been killed in a domestic dispute with his brother. Although eyewitnesses reported seeing a man who looked like Cunanan flee the scene, police downplayed the sighting, saying many men in Miami fit his description. Meanwhile, police hotlines continued to be inundated with alleged sightings of the suspected serial killer, linked to four killings including the murder of Versace on Wednesday. Reports had him driving in Key Largo...
...Islamic world. Recent polls suggest that 96% of Americans believe in a personal God and that 78% of them think their consciousness will survive death and go, after judgment, to heaven or hell. Its earliest colonists in the Northeast--Pilgrims, Puritans, Quakers, "Pennsylvania Dutch"--were all seeking to flee European persecution and corruption (as they saw it) and trying to set up various kinds of religious Utopias. The main tool of Catholic Spain's colonization in the Southwest was the Franciscan mission. And yet the paradoxical fact is that the U.S. has never produced a substantial body of formal religious...
...second set of central characters--the collection of mismatched lovers who flee into the forest--is equally well-played by its four talented and entertaining actors. Tom Davidson '99 and Jeremy Salfen '00 are quite good as the hot-headed and hapless suitors Lysander and Demetrius and the more challenging women's roles are excellently filled by Monica Henderson '99 as Hermia and Elena Schneider '99 as Helena. If the men's roles are supposed to be almost interchangeable, then the women must play off each other's differences, and Henderson and Schneider work well together. Their portrayals of strong...
...Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, was forced to flee to India...
Rajavi, a former student leader trained as a metallurgical engineer, rules the rebel force together with her husband Massoud, who was head of the People's Mujahedin when the Shah was overthrown and exiled in 1979. Massoud was soon forced to flee the country as the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini began killing and imprisoning Massoud's largely secular followers. Since then Maryam and Massoud have built up not only one of the world's most formidable rebel armies but a sophisticated resistance movement as well, with offices around the world, plus five radio stations and a new satellite-television network that...