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...RECOVERING. Aung San Suu Kyi, 58, detained Burmese Nobel Peace Prize laureate, from major surgery; in a private hospital in Rangoon. The Oxford-educated Suu Kyi has been held incommunicado by Burma's military government since a mob attacked her and a group of supporters four months...
...CONVICTED. Dara Singh, 40, along with 12 accomplices; for the 1999 murders of Australian missionary Graham Staines, 58, and his two sons, aged 12 and 8; in Bhubaneswar, India. In January 1999, Singh, allegedly a member of the pro-Hindu youth group Bajrang Dal, led a mob that surrounded the Jeep containing the three sleeping Staineses and burned them alive...
...there a greater social purpose behind the recent flash mob craze than releasing steam in these stressful post-Sept. 11 days? In a typical flash mob, scores of individuals convene with the help of instant messages and cell phones to await the often-zany instructions of their unknown leader. A San Francisco flash mob, for instance, was told to play a giant game of duck-duck-goose, and a Harvard Square flash mob flocked to the Harvard Coop this summer to ask for greeting cards for a friend named “Bill.” Since the first flash...
...UMass and a former Massachusetts Senate President, William Bulger was one of the most powerful figures in state government—which left him in a unique position to represent the university’s interests at the State House. He was also the brother of notorious New England mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger, one of the FBI’s ten most wanted. The Bulger family’s seeming dichotomy of public figure and public fugitive was a motif that often left William to play the part of the innocent...
...become shorthand for al-Qaeda. And in Najaf, reports circulated that the local police had arrested up to 19 men with alleged al-Qaeda connections, though in the chaos it was impossible to say whether that haul included the two men whom TIME had seen saved from the mob by U.S. forces. Privately, some U.S. government officials in Washington said they believed, after a preliminary assessment, that secular Baathists loyal to Saddam were responsible. Hamid al-Bayati, SCIRI's spokesman in London, and Ahmed Chalabi of the Iraqi National Conference saw the handiwork of Saddam's supporters...