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...weeks before the computer story unraveled, early on the morning of April 17, the victim was returning to his room but was unable to enter because the lock had been jammed with plastic pieces...
...same lock was jammed a total of five times that week, the victim said, and he remembered that Wan offered to help him remove the plastic from the lock on several occasions...
Even as observers comforted one another, crime-scene investigators in white plastic jumpsuits could be seen inside gathering evidence. Authorities are also looking into accounts of a second gunman who followed children into the schoolyard during the confusion and then fled...
...army carte blanche to wipe out the Maoists. I spoke to several young girls held prisoner in Nepalgunj jail accused of belonging to the guerrillas' political wing. All told the same story of the police keeping them blindfolded for weeks, sometimes months, beating the soles of their feet with plastic piping, then rubbing chili powder into the wounds. Nor are the security forces above murder. On March 18, a group of 20 policemen arrested five men, including Kanchha Dangol?a carpenter?in Tokha outside Kathmandu. Four days later Dangol's body surfaced at a nearby hospital: he had been beaten...
...dashing figure who resembles Matthew McConaughey more closely than the stoic elder statesman in a Gilbert Stuart painting. Jim Rees, Mount Vernon's executive director, declares that Washington "at age 23 was already the action hero of his times." Using the skills of a forensic scientist, a plastic surgeon and a life mask of the President's face, Mount Vernon will create a more youthful and vital portrait and build a new orientation center, education center and museum to play up his action-hero side. Steven Spielberg is even making a new 15-min. bio film. Indiana George...