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...aunt, among others, and left the room again. Cousin Paras was in a corner of the billiards room, in front of a group of princesses. After a minute, Dipendra returned. He strode up to the five wounded or dead relatives, including the King, and fired at them again, at point-blank range, and then targeted his sister Shruti as she bent over her injured husband. The final time, he left and returned to pump bullets into those he had already shot. Then Dipendra turned his gun toward Paras. His cousin shouted, "Nai, Dai! Nai Dai! (No, Brother! No, Brother...
...father, a professor, for a Chinese waiter. I've had Chinese Americans and Chinese-in-China talk about me as though I weren't there: "I had a cousin from the south who looked like her, but her hair is disgusting." On book tours, Caucasians will often ask point-blank, "Why would you choose to be Chinese when you have all the privileges of being white?" Given my family and the era in which I grew up, I don't know that I had a choice...
...longer the crisis drags out, the more the media will become anxious to unleash the h-word, as soon as a critical mass of politicians - or yellow-ribbon-wielding citizens - provide them cover to do so. At a face-to-face with President Bush Monday morning, one reporter asked point-blank at what point the troops become "hostages." Bush used the opportunity to hint diplomatically that China could be threatening its relationship with the U.S., but he didn't directly answer the question. Which is fine: What the media need to understand is that it's not the President...
...lead, they played more conservatively and kept a forward back, while the U.S. tried in vain to get the pack past St. Pierre. In one startling sequence on the power play, St. Pierre stopped several shots in succession while sprawled across the crease, including a Mleczko shot from point-blank range...
Botterill scored a short-handed goal 13 minutes into the third period to pull Harvard within one. The play was created by co-captain Angie Francsico, who stole the puck on the forecheck and found Botterill wide open in front at point-blank range...