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...morning of Sept. 30, more than 100 international climbers at a base camp on Cho Oyu, the world's sixth highest mountain, watched as border guards from the Chinese People's Armed Police opened fire on a group of several dozen Tibetans ascending the 5,700m Nangpa La, a pass linking China and Nepal. "At first I was thinking it was simply warning shots," says an American who watched the scene through binoculars. "The reality is that they were taking direct aim at people trying to cross the pass." As the mountaineers looked on, the guards allegedly shot dead...
...state-run news service, quoted an unnamed official claiming that the guards were "forced to defend themselves." But Sergiu Matei, a climber and cameraman for Romania's ProTV, which later broadcast his footage of the shooting, asserts: "That was not self-defense. [The refugees] were clearly passing through Nangpa La and running from the police, who shot them like dogs...
...WHIFF French perfumer Francis Kurkdjian based M.A. Sillage de la Reine (the Queen's wake) on M.A.'s tastes. The scent is "like the flutter of a light dress." Translation: a mix including jasmine, rose, cedar and gray amber...
...Garrett, and NBC's offbeat comedy My Name Is Earl are getting as much as $500,000 an episode, compared with $200,000 for sitcoms five years ago. Touchstone's Ugly Betty is on its second global lap. Based on the wildly popular Spanish-language telenovela Yo Soy Betty, la Fea, it was redeveloped for a U.S. audience and is now being resold in Europe and elsewhere--in some cases dubbed into Spanish...
...land far, far away… The Harvard men’s water polo team traveled coast-to-coast yesterday, trading the shifty New England weather for the warm southern California coast. This was no vacation, however; the Crimson players were on official business. Harvard faced the University of La Verne in a tightly contested match-up. A full 31 minutes of play could not separate the two teams. With only seconds left on the clock, the game-winner finally came—for ULV— dropping the Crimson, 8-7. For the last 22 minutes of regulation, neither...