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...Skeptics will say the British have to say that; otherwise, their claim to have any influence in Washington would lie empty. But an American official who has been privately doubtful of the Administration's commitment to the peace process now echoes this view. "I'm convinced the President will lay his own political life on the line for it," says this official. "When I do the gut check...
...grim knock-on effect came as little surprise to those familiar with Czech history. In 1969, 28 Czech residents set fire to themselves in the 31?2 months after Palach's death, which brought some 200,000 people into Wenceslas Square to light candles and lay flowers. Thirty-four years later, relatively few came to mourn Adamec. But his death and the copycat immolations that followed have become a kind of Czech Rorschach test, as people seek and find explanations that may have more to do with themselves than with the suicides...
...that of their other clients, the Dignitas staff then took the Stokes to see founder Ludwig Minelli, to verify their wish to die. A doctor who had reviewed their records prescribed a toxic dose of barbiturates, and the couple was taken to a bare apartment in Zurich. They likely lay down upon two single beds, ate some Swiss chocolate to help them swallow a bitter anti-vomiting medication, and then drank the barbiturate cocktail. Within minutes, they drifted into a coma, then died. The couple had already arranged for a double coffin. Since the couple's death, Jennifer Stokes' mother...
...recovers, only to realize he always had a fancy for another girl, famed for having two sets of teeth. All of which makes it a bit alarming that Rhodes says his love tales are written from experience - though it would explain the exhaustion that has led him to lay down his pen. "I don't want to go back to that level of commitment where writing takes over my life for years," he says. "And I'd hate to write with less dedication." In Timoleon Vieta Come Home, at least, he manages to conjure for Cockcroft a happy ending...
...with long spikes on the inside door that closes to impale its victim. Its name derives from its mummy shape and the beatific woman's face depicted on its headpiece. The one found in Baghdad was clearly worn from use, its nails having lost some of their sharpness. It lay on its side within view of Uday's first-floor offices in the soccer association. Ironically, the torture device was brought to TIME's attention by a group of looters who had been stripping the compound of anything of value. They had left behind the iron maiden, believing...