Word: postmortems
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...domestic issues but also foreign policy. If they don't, the next time the war on terrorism is invoked to invade an unsuspecting country without conclusive evidence or an international mandate by the U.N., the blood of innocents will be on those voters' hands. Putri Norlisa Najib London Beslan Postmortem In view of the school siege in Beslan, Russia [Sept. 20], it is high time for us psychologists to seriously consider designing a manual on how to handle hostage-taking situations. Such a manual should be based on a very careful study of all the minute details of the experiences...
...ROYAL FAMILY ORDERED IT BECAUSE DIANA WAS PREGNANT. The Windsors, in a theory pushed by Dodi's father, could not bear the idea of a Muslim strain in their bloodline. But former royal coroner John Burton, who witnessed Diana's postmortem, said flatly, "She wasn't pregnant. I have seen into her womb...
...project, the damage to the bodies of the young woman and the boy is too violent to be accidental. Someone hacked at the woman's face with a sharp instrument, and similar damage was done to the boy's chest--just what might be expected during a postmortem desecration of unpopular figures. (A cavity in the woman's chest was likely the incidental handiwork of later grave robbers.) "The damage to the mouth is appalling," says Fletcher. "It looks completely malicious...
...February of 1999 and Bill Carmody knew a recipe for disaster when he saw one. After losing a heated overtime contest at Lavietes Pavilion, the former Princeton coach’s postmortem focused on the veteran leadership of Harvard’s senior-laden squad...
...price on lost life. It may be a heartrending calculus, but it is, in the end, just calculus. Lawyers and actuaries worked out payment structures for catastrophic death decades ago, and--with a few modifications for cost of living, income and dependents--anyone can discover his or her approximate postmortem value with a 10- second glance at a statistical chart. Feinberg's challenge is to convince the 9/11 families that even though the country has valorized their husbands, sisters, sons and mothers because of their ghastly death, the dollars Feinberg will pay them will be a reflection of who their...