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...girl who married the dazzlingly brilliant Philip Graham. It was her father who owned the Washington Post, but her husband was given majority control of the paper on the theory that no man should ever work for his wife. When she found the manic-depressive Graham dead of a gunshot wound in the bathroom of their country house in 1963, this "doormat wife" at 46 was thrust into running the company. Men in suits thought they would be able to wrest it from someone so crippled by anxiety that she practiced saying "Merry Christmas" before giving her first staff party...
...help police restore order. Six days of peaceful protest against the sell-off of state enterprises turned violent when police fired teargas into a crowd of students. Criminal gangs took advantage of the unrest that followed to loot shops and burn cars. Hospital sources said three people died from gunshot wounds and another 18 were injured. PERU Montesinos Nabbed Vladimiro Montesinos, ex-President Alberto Fujimori's intelligence boss, is now behind bars after an eight-month manhunt. He is being questioned on bribery, money laundering and murder charges. Venezuelan cops nabbed Montesinos in Caracas, a step ahead of Peruvian agents...
...another daughter of Tribhuvan. None of the three witnesses saw any indication, as had been earlier reported, that there was a family argument before their arrival?something that might have set Dipendra off. Nor did they see what ultimately happened to the Crown Prince, who was found with fatal gunshot wounds on a footbridge between the billiards room and his house across the garden. What they do agree upon is that Dipendra went on a three-minute spree of terror that destroyed a big chunk of his family, changed the line of succession?and traumatized his nation as never before...
...first-year Harvard Medical student, Luz Angelica Chavez, commits an apparent suicide in Countway library. She apparently died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound...
...first-year student at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Luz Angelica Chavez died Nov. 30 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the bathroom of the school's Countway Library...