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...year-old father, Josef, today confessed that he held his now 42-year-old daughter captive for 24 years in a concealed, windowless basement hideout, where he repeatedly had sexual intercourse with her and where she gave birth to seven of his children. The shocking case has reminded many Austrians of the fate of Natascha Kampusch, who was kidnapped at the age of 10 and kept in a narrow basement for eight years until she managed to flee in August 2006. But the senior investigator in Amstetten, Franz Polzer, said that the cruel deliberateness of Josef Fritzl's deed outstripped...
...admitted to the local hospital. Kerstin, together with her brothers Stefan, now 18, and Felix, 5, had shared their mother's miserable life in the basement and had never seen the daylight. The hospital's urgent request for medical information from Kerstin's family triggered an anonymous tip, and Josef and Elisabeth were seized by police...
...rich red and orange hues of the giant murals of Josef Mikl breathed new life into Vienna's 18th century Redoutensaal concert hall. In addition to winning praise for his abstract works in sculpture, drawing and painting, Mikl helped reinvigorate the art community and heal its wounds following the Nazi era in his native Austria...
...when Ratzinger's longtime personal secretary, Monsignor Josef Clemens, was appointed to a top position in another Vatican office, Gänswein stepped into the role of Ratzinger's right-hand man. It was not expected to be a particularly long assignment, as the Cardinal planned to return to his private studies in Germany after the conclusion of the papacy of the ailing John Paul II. Of course, fate had other plans, and when Ratzinger became Benedict XVI, Gänswein moved with him across St. Peter's Square to the office next to the new pontiff in the Apostolic Palace...
...according to the complaint filed at the Suffolk County Courthouse. Warfield, a leading physician known for her work in pain medicine, rose from the ranks of a resident and a fellow in the 1970s to chair of the hospital’s anesthesia department in 2000. A year later, Josef E. Fischer became the new head of the surgery department at Beth Israel. The lawsuit alleges that, prior to his appointment, Fischer already had a reputation for being “‘old style,’ with a demonstrated tendency to be abusive to?...