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...that he belonged to the ruling Nepali Congress Party, was beyond speech. Eventually his torturers?a crowd of 60 girls and boys in Maoist uniforms and rebel-red bandannas?grew tired. Selecting a sharpened kukri (a small machete), one of them stepped forward and sliced halfway through Jnawali's neck in a single blow. And that's how his wife and son found him, cut to pieces, head partly severed, when they dared to venture out into the yard the next morning. No one knew whether he had died of shock or bled to death, but the pool of blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nepal: Return to Year Zero | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

Some debutantes key into the tradition more than others. With her short hair pulled back in sparkly barrettes, funky jewelry dangling from her neck and Saucony sneakers peaking out from the bottom of her pants, Elizabeth H. Hagan ’02-’03 looks like she’d rather be at a SoHo coffee house than a formal tea party. But Hagan was born and raised in Atlanta and comes from a long line of debutantes. “I absolutely refused to participate in the process,” she says...

Author: By Mollie H. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Welcome to the Ball | 5/2/2002 | See Source »

Coming into the 24-school tournament, Harvard stood neck and neck with two other schools in the race to claim the ECCC title...

Author: By Samuel C. Roddenberry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cycling Team Wins Two Championships | 4/30/2002 | See Source »

...time. To be safe, he added a buffer solution to the hexamethonium--but without informing the IRB, which he should have done. That omission may be a reflection of the prevailing sentiment at many hospitals: that the IRB and its review process are a bureaucratic pain in the neck, not a clinical necessity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Your Own Risk | 4/22/2002 | See Source »

...track, a jilted-lover jam, manages to break free. Crow gets her voice under the song, and the sing-along chorus--"Break my heart again/For old times' sake"--actually inspires singing along. For a moment, the summer sun feels as if it just might warm the back of your neck forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: She Wants To Have Fun | 4/22/2002 | See Source »

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