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...Wang opened the metal gate to her new, middle-class apartment block, an attacker struck from behind, smashing her head with a brick. Wang stumbled, screamed and struggled desperately to get inside the apartment building. She didn't make it. Her assailant spun her around and plunged a watermelon knife into her chest seven times. Then, as neighbors peered out from above, the killer fled...
...best in the Arab world, no longer have access to advances in medical science because they have no books, no Internet connections and barely any money to attend international conferences. "They say we use everything for weapons," he says bitterly. "But everything has a dual use. Even a kitchen knife can cut vegetables or kill someone...
...graver consequences. It ended not just in four arrrests - one the following day - but in the murder of a policeman. The killing happened after the police had been in the apartment for more than an hour. In a violent struggle, five of the officers were injured, four with knife wounds and a fifth with a broken ankle. Detective Constable Stephen Oake, father of three and son of a retired police chief, died from multiple stab wounds to the chest. Charged with the murder (but not with terrorism offenses) was Kamel Bourgass, a 27-year-old North African. Handcuffed...
...initiative marks a major turnabout for the Saudis. While the official position is still against regime change in Baghdad, the new initiative amounts to a knife in Saddam's back. And what finally pushed the notoriously cautious Saudis into action is the recognition that with tens of thousands of addition American troops headed for the Gulf, the Bush Administration really is ready...
...considered, but the final decision rests with the school's administrators, the student's mental-health counselor, school-district officials and the probation officer. A 13-year-old boy who was expelled under zero-tolerance rules last June--he accidentally cut his best friend while playing with a pen knife at school--will return to his school district next fall because, Corella says, "he's a strong A student with no behavior problems, and his offense was minor." When a student has serious anger problems, however, "it's a big red flag," she says. "That kid's probably better...