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Phyllis Fisher, director of public relations for Thomas Jefferson University, declined comment, citing the Sullivan family’s request for privacy. She said the Jefferson Medical College Dean’s office and Sullivan’s friends will be selling a memorial pin to raise money for the scholarship fund...
...many of those left behind, hope that loved ones might still be alive has given way to a desire for some kind of closure. A few days after the tsunami, a Thai woman named Somsap Sukdi went to Phuket's provincial hall to pin up pictures of her missing German husband, Markus Knoesel. Now, carrying their 2-year-old son Jimmy in her arms, Somsap, tears streaming down her face, slowly walks the length of the notice board, removing those pictures. Knoesel's body was positively identified the previous day. "He's not missing anymore," she says softly, a widow...
Sophomore Robbie Preston turned in a spotless weekend of his own in the 125-lb. class on the strength of a forfeit, a 5-1 decision over Stanford’s Nathan Peterson, and a 1:12 pin against Cal State Fullerton’s Jesse Miramontes...
...Moscow. Last month Yushchenko focused suspicion on his Sept. 5 dinner with the heads of the Ukrainian security service, the sbu. But that theory faded after experts noted that dioxin needs days or weeks to take effect. The plotters' identities remain unknown. Even if Yushchenko can't pin his poisoning on the Kremlin, Russia did back Kuchma and Yanukovych as energetically as the West pulled for Yushchenko, which makes for an awkward status quo. Having failed embarrassingly in his efforts to engineer a pro-Russian regime in Kiev, Putin will likely opt for a waiting game, and discreetly sow discontent...
...strangest releases this year came from guilt-drenched indie wunderkind Will Oldham, a man noted for his reluctance to pin down one poetic persona in his career. April saw the release of Bonnie “Prince” Billy Performs Greatest Palace Music, on which Oldham as B“P”B covered his own alternative persona as one of the Palace Brothers. The album was a sine qua non for any of Oldham’s fervent and widespread followers and showed just how potent and productive a force schizophrenia can be on rock music...