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...morning, its gates are secured with heavy steel padlocks. Warning notices from the Public Security Bureau are pasted across the doors announcing that the business has been closed indefinitely. Until last month, this was one of the biggest private companies in the city, residents say; its owner was a popular philanthropist. But now pedestrians keep their distance, some averting their eyes when passing. The shop belonged to Mutallip Hajim, a successful Uighur jade trader well known for sponsoring religious-education classes. He was arrested in January for unspecified crimes. On March 3, police announced that the 38-year...
Very early on the morning of June 30, 1860, a murder took place at an English country house called Road Hill. The owner's son Saville Kent, 3, was gently, silently lifted from his bed. His assailant suffocated him, stabbed him in the chest, cut his throat and finally dropped him head-down through a hole in the servants' outhouse. His body was found later that day. In the months that followed, the Road Hill House murder became a national obsession. It seemed to reveal some sick secret truth lurking in the hushed, upholstered heart of the Victorian household; Wilkie...
...shop owner in the oldest township, Mbare, said he could not risk opening his store in the morning. "We didn't know what was going to happen because there was tension. We were afraid to open the shop because people usually loot." In Warren Park on Monday night, an 85-seater passenger coach had been burnt by protestors, prompting a heavy police presence. Witnesses said they heard gunshots at the scene during the night but were too afraid to go out. And in Glen View 1 township, supporters of the ruling Zanu-PF party and the MDC clashed after...
...owner of one of the smaller bookstores of the 15 recognized, Devon Gray said that she appreciated the extra attention...
...comics, it sits untouched, unpoliced, and at the ready.“The collection is impressive. I wish somebody would look at it,” says Kimberly D. Hagan ’09, a desk attendant at the Qube.James J. Talbot, a local comics expert, former comics store owner, and current head of a semi-annual comics convention, says the value of these comics lies not in their resale value but their content.“I see guys with collections like this all the time,” he says. He picks up an issue...