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With the arrest of his closest associates, Fujimori fled to Japan, his ancestral homeland, in November 2000 and was granted citizenship there. Peru was unable to extradite him from Japan. But then Fujimori did the unexpected and secretly flew to Chile, Peru's southern neighbor, in October 2005. The idea was to return to Peru from Chile to possibly run in the 2006 elections, but those plans were foiled by Chilean police, who promptly arrested him. Fujimori did come home, but under guard. The Chilean Supreme Court approved his extradition on seven counts in September...
...South Dakota, the son of working-class parents. He became the first member of his family to enter college and later married a woman he had known since he was fifteen. When he was offered a job at the number-one NBC affiliate in the United States, he flew South and found himself right in the middle of the civil rights campaign. Brokaw’s personal story soon blended into a national one beginning with a large “Boom”—the shooting of Kennedy.“That was the beginning...
When pigs fly, you say? Well, that already happened seven years ago, when a woman brought her 300-lb. potbellied pig on US Airways and flew with it, first class, from Philadelphia to Seattle. So there's still hope...
...taking you there.) This happened to be the last flight to Madison, so she had to wait until the next morning and be re-routed through Chicago. Eventually, she found her way to Milwaukee, where she decided to cut her losses and take a bus.In the final accounting, she flew over Madison twice and still missed Thanksgiving by six hours—even though she had left Boston on Wednesday.Now, there’s little that could have been done to cheer up Ariadne after such a trip—little except a group of friendly, folk-song-singing Swedes...
...Harvard’s first big chance to score came when freshman forward Michael Biega, coming off of a hat trick Wednesday night, fired a low shot on Devine. Senior forward Paul Dufault and a Dartmouth defender simultaneously pounced on the rebound, and the puck flew over the cage in a scuffle for control. But the Crimson also survived tense moments in the second period. With sophomore Alex Biega in the penalty box for tripping, Dartmouth’s top scoring combination peppered Richter with multiple shots. Captain Nick Johnson, on a three-game scoring streak, and J.T. Wyman...