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...MURDERED. ANDREW KISSEL, 46, millionaire real estate developer and brother of "milkshake murder" victim Robert Kissel; by unknown assailants; in Greenwich, Connecticut. In 2005, a Hong Kong court convicted Nancy Kissel, Robert's wife, of bludgeoning the investment banker to death after serving him a milkshake laced with sedatives. Andrew Kissel, who faced federal and state charges that he defrauded lenders of $11 million and bilked a Manhattan real estate cooperative out of $4 million, was discovered tied up in the basement of his rental house with multiple stab wounds. He was expected to plead guilty this month to grand...
...campaign against Coke, and the effort is gathering increased attention. Last week, SLAM leader Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07 sent an e-mail to House open lists a list of alleged human rights abuses. Among them, Gould-Wartofsky alleged that Coke was complicit in the murder of Colombian union organizers and the depletion of water sources in India.The e-mail, which was the first mass-distributed iteration of SLAM’s allegations against Coke and included links to outside sources, led to an immediate response by Joshua M. Reilly ’08 and Mark...
...MURDERED. Denis Donaldson, 56, former official in Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, who in December admitted he had been spying on the I.R.A. for the British since the mid-1980s; by gunfire; at his family's holiday home in County Donegal, Ireland. The I.R.A., which renounced political violence last year but has had a policy of killing suspected informants, denied responsibility for the murder...
...wake of the murder of three Canadian-Venezuelan brothers and the fatal shooting of a news photographer, protesters, many of them middle-class families fed up with widespread crime, have been marching since early Wednesday. The brothers, all teenagers ranging in age from 12 to 17, and their chauffeur were found dead late Tuesday, after they were kidnapped at a phony checkpoint on Feb. 23. by men dressed in police uniforms. The victims were found only one week after a prominent Italian-born business owner was murdered after being abducted by people also dressed as police. The Mayor of Caracas...
...Blair and Ahern both suggested the murder may have been a deliberate attempt to derail their plan to finish the job of establishing a peaceful Northern Ireland. "If there are people who are trying to wreck the political process by these appalling and barbaric acts of violence," Blair said, "the single best message is to say 'No, you're not going to succeed.'" That sounds good in theory, but as Donaldson's killing has shown once again, violence usually has the final say in Northern Ireland...