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...specify how. "I was used like his work animal," she says. Obsessive about cleanliness, he punished her when she left fingerprints in the house. He also forced her to cover her hair with a plastic bag and then just shaved off her hair altogether. Kampusch then started to go on short trips around town with him but says she never dared to escape. One day, when they were driving to the store, Kampusch says they were stopped at a routine police checkpoint. She says she tried to make eye contact with the officer to signal that she needed help...
...documentary also explores how police bungled the investigation when Kampusch went missing. An officer had named Priklopil as the possible kidnapper at one point, saying his van matched one that was described by witnesses, but after the van was searched and he was questioned, police let him go and ruled him out as a suspect. For Kampusch, it would be yet another missed opportunity for freedom...
...firms have instituted or beefed up rules that would allow them to force employees to return year-end bonuses. So-called clawbacks would be triggered by subsequently discovered misconduct and some firms say they may even apply in cases where employees made trades that looked profitable at first, but go sour. (See the financial crisis after one year...
...Division I basketball programs go, Harvard has one of the more barebones operations,” Orton writes of Harvard basketball’s recent Dark Ages. “With just a head coach, two assistants, and a trainer, the Crimson is the mom-and-pop store in the corporate world of college basketball...
...risk for the opposition, as Fonseka supporters say that the higher the voter turnout, the better his chance of ousting Rajapaksa. "They want to keep us away from the booths," Fonseka told the crowd at his final election rally on Jan. 23. "We should not get scared, we should go and vote." (See pictures of life in the territories previously controlled by the Tamil Tigers...