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...weeks ago yesterday, in Cancun, Mexico, a South Korean farmer turned protester named Lee Kyoung-Hae plunged a knife into his own heart and died shortly thereafter. Welcome to the fifth ministerial of the World Trade Organization (WTO), where Lee’s death provided a potent symbol of the deadly contradictions which plague our global economic order. Lee had come to Cancun to protest a trade regime which had subjected him and other small South Korean farmers to debilitating competition from rich-nation exports. Unable to compete, many of Lee’s fellow farmers lost their land...

Author: By Sasha Post, | Title: Trade Troubles | 9/25/2003 | See Source »

...death of Anna Lindh, Sweden's popular Foreign Minister, in the upscale NK department store in central Stockholm. Swedish newspapers said Svensson, 35, was a high school dropout and had been convicted of more than 40 past crimes, including gross fraud, violence, physical abuse, theft and threats with a knife. Police used closed-circuit television pictures in the store to identify Svensson. The lead investigator on the case, Leif Jennekvist, said Svensson is "not unlike the man in the NK pictures." DNA tests were conducted on a cap recovered near the scene, but police would not release the results, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Swedes Say Goodbye | 9/21/2003 | See Source »

...trying to repeal it, and more than 150 cities and towns have passed resolutions saying they don't like being spied on. On the other hand, you can read the latest reports about flimsy border security and lethal germs and how easily a man took a 4-in. knife on board a United flight in June and wish that even more money, more muscle, more ingenuity were going into this fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After 9: Life During Wartime | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

...Byrne, he had reacted in a frantic split-second when Trombly—in the process of being unhandcuffed—used a free hand to grab for something in his deep pocket. Byrne said that at the time, he thought the student could have been pulling a knife...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BPD Officer Charged in Assault Testifies | 8/15/2003 | See Source »

...officer responded to a report of an assault at the R.F. Kennedy School on Spring Street. The victim stated that, while playing basketball, he was approached by six white males swinging baseball bats. An altercation ensued and the victim said he was stabbed three times with a small knife after being pushed to the ground...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: CPD POLICE LOG | 8/8/2003 | See Source »

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