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...death, the victim had to be willing, had to know what was happening, watch the knife, and not stop it. But even tranquilizers couldn't lull 15-year-old Manju Kumari to her fate. In his police confession, Karmakar says his wife, daughter and three accomplices had to gag Manju and pin her down on the earthen floor before the shrine. In ritual order, Karmakar wafted incense over her, tore off her blue skirt and pink T shirt, shaved her, sprinkled her with holy water from the Ganges and rubbed her with cooking fat. Then chanting mantras to the "mother...
...came as a shock to the clerical establishment that has controlled state power since the Islamic Revolution, in which he played a significant role. In his resignation statement, Taheri portrayed Iran's establishment as deeply corrupt, self-serving, hypocritical and repressive. Iran's highest-ranking security body ordered a gag on press coverage of the resignation, citing the need to preserve calm and protect national security. INDONESIA Separatists Soldiers shot dead six men and one woman, fighters from the Free Aceh Movement. Clashes in the province of Aceh, in northwestern Sumatra, also claimed the lives of three civilians...
...backfire by painting the campaign in xenophobic colors. But George Eustice, the campaign's director, insisted that "anyone who sees the clip in its context is not going to take any offense." He may be right - nearly. Before the launch, focus groups said they didn't find the Hitler gag offensive. Meanwhile, the protests gave the ad enough free publicity to achieve its goal of lining up popular figures against a currency that over 50% of Britons say they would vote against. If the campaign helps preserve that opposition, Tony Blair's march toward a euro referendum could turn into...
...recently given "U.S. Presidents for Dummies" as a gag gift, but paging through it, I found myself pulled in not so much by the book's facts as by its opinions. For instance, the author, University of Texas at Tyler political science professor Marcus Stadelmann, calls Lincoln's successor Andrew Johnson, a former slave owner who flubbed Reconstruction, "a horrible human being." When I was in school, textbooks were not that honest. Of course, when I was in school, textbooks still said the U.S. had never lost a war, and I started kindergarten four months after the fall of Saigon...
...being rounded up, according to villagers, American soldiers bound and shoved the village women. That was an affront. Naibo, a middle-aged mother with cropped black hair, hands and feet scored from years of labor, says troops used plastic handcuffs to tie her hands and a torn turban to gag her. "I felt certain they were going to kill me," she says. "I was whispering the prayer before dying from the Koran." Other women made similar claims. A villager produces his daughter Maba, 7, to act out how she says she was bound. "If they touch our women again...