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...some Jew” Omar tried to kill. As Laura writes, “There were moments when the journalist in me took over, when I listened to an account from the shooter’s life and was charmed. Then I would remember my father with a pang and think—but you tried to kill him.” Nonetheless, she finds herself becoming unnervingly comfortable with them, and begins having the family smuggle her letters to Omar. The climax is a finale so unexpected and breathtaking that it would be entirely implausible as fiction...
...moment in a kidnapping, as one of the captors felt a pang of discomfort. The American backpacker had climbed willingly into the conspirators' van, lured by the false promise of dinner with a local Delhi family. Now it was time to tell him he was a hostage. The crisis of conscience was short-lived, but it was significant enough for the kidnapper to recall later in a confession he penned in jail. "All of a sudden, I felt terribly embarrassed," he wrote. So embarrassed that, hoping to evade responsibility, he begged his co-conspirator in Hindi, "Kidnap me also...
...mean to ridicule these notions. Even eight years along, I can still pass as healthy most of the time, or could until this week; but there has been a slight pang of disloyalty to the cause in doing so. A woman with multiple sclerosis once said to me, unknowingly, about disease activists in general: "We all pray for someone famous to get our disease." Although I am a very minor public figure compared with the Pope--let alone Michael J. Fox!--I haven't been doing...
...deported from Japan after trying to sneak into the country with two women and a four-year-old boy he wanted to take to Tokyo Disneyland. Japan and North Korea do not have diplomatic relations, so Nam, 29, was traveling with a Dominican passport under the name Pang Xiong. The Japanese government refused comment on the case in an effort to avoid further embarrassment to North Korea, but several news agencies confirmed Nam's identity. The trip could mark a potential split between Jong Nam, the presumptive future ruler of North Korea, and his poofy-haired father. In his collection...
...Janice Pang of Belmont, Calif., was a 23-year-old journalism graduate student on the verge of starting an internship when her parents' bitter divorce resulted in her taking sole guardianship of her sister Lisa, 11. Unprepared, Janice had to reorganize her life quickly. She pursued a job rather than an internship and moved into Stanford University family housing with her boyfriend Scott, who was willing to share parenting responsibilities. Dr. Laurie Kramer, a University of Illinois siblings expert, says that for the older sibling, such an upheaval can be restricting. "The ages from 18 to 25 are really...