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Three Harvard Business School students were robbed at gunpoint on Dec. 21 at 4:30 a.m. at the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Bow Street...
...were good, and it didn't look like cartooning was a high-percentage play," he says. He went on to get a bachelor's degree in economics from nearby Hartwick College and headed to San Francisco. "My first job was as a bank teller. I got robbed twice at gunpoint. But it was worth it," he says with amusement, "because I was making $735 a month...
...tough neighborhood. He cleans hotels for $250 a week and then goes straight home to a three-bedroom house in a predominantly African-American area on the north side of Wilmington, Del. He lives with five of his six children and his girlfriend. His younger brother was robbed at gunpoint and shot in the head a few years ago. "I don't bother anybody," he says. "I try to do right, keep a cool head." He needed one on Sept. 3, when seven or eight cops descended on him as he was leaving the corner deli. They jumped...
...eliminated." MIDDLE EAST In the Wrong Place, at the Wrong Time The death of a Palestinian man revived criticism that the Israeli army is using human shields as part of its campaign in the West Bank. Palestinian witnesses said 19-year-old Nidal Abu M'khisan was forced at gunpoint to try to get Nasser Jarrar - a senior Hamas militant in the West Bank town of Tubas - to surrender. M'khisan was given a flak jacket and sent to Jarrar's door, where he was killed in a burst of gunfire. The army said it was trying to prevent deaths...
...latest innovation among criminal gangs in Latin America who want to net the most cash in the least time. Here's how it works: criminals accost a well-dressed executive late at night in his car or as he emerges from an upscale restaurant. The victim is escorted at gunpoint to an ATM, where he is forced to make the maximum daily withdrawal--generally between $1,000 and $2,000. The kidnappers sometimes wait and force the victim to make another maximum daily withdrawal after the clock turns over, usually at midnight. A victim who doesn't resist usually...