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...gold medals at World Cup skating events in China. But national pride turned to anger last week after allegations surfaced that at least three members of the South Korean women's team may have been victims of beatings by some of their coaches. According to three unsigned letters sent to a local news agency, the coaches allegedly administered frequent lashings with plastic skate guards, hockey sticks, shoes and skate sharpeners: "Anything could be turned into a rod," read one letter. The letter writers have not come forward, but their claims of violence were repeated to TIME by both a current...
...Washington, D.C. Mistrusted by Democrats, in part for his staunch religious conservatism, Ashcroft was criticized by civil libertarians after Sept. 11 for the Patriot Act, legislation they felt gave too much power to law enforcement. Hospitalized this year for pancreatitis caused by gallstones, Ashcroft wrote in his resignation letter that it was time for "new leadership and fresh inspiration" at the Justice Department...
...Gogh, a great-grandnephew of the artist Vincent van Gogh, had just finished a film about Fortuyn when he was murdered. Amsterdam's public prosecutor says Mohammed B. shot Van Gogh as he cycled to his studio, then slit his throat and impaled a five-page letter to his body with a knife. The act was apparently in retaliation for Van Gogh's film Submission, a graphic look at abused Muslim women that was broadcast on Dutch television in August. Calling Van Gogh's murder part of a wider terrorist plot, the prosecutor's office arrested five men - four Moroccans...
More recently, Present! hosted a “Letter-Writing Campaign” outside the Science Center over Freshman Parents’ Weekend. The organization supplied typewriters, paper, and stamps; students supplied their own thoughts and messages. The group sealed, addressed, and mailed each piece of correspondence; students needed only bring something to say. The response was overwhelmingly positive from passersby, who readily unveiled unknown passions for letter-writing as well as the characteristic college student’s love of mail...
Fans will delight in the Jerky Boys familiar characters, like the abrasive Frank Rizzo, voiced by Johnny B., whose defining characteristic is an unnecessary overuse of a four letter word rhyming with “puck,” the memorable Sol Rosenberg, an annoyingly shy, neurotic, Jewish man, á la Woody Allen, and the hilarious transsexual Jack Tors. Kamal’s participation is comparatively limited to infrequent characters like Tarbash the Egyptian magician and Ali Kamal...