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...rugged region to prevent escapes. While there are occasional reports of border guards firing on refugees, this is the first time such an incident has been widely witnessed. Xinhua, China's state-run news service, quoted an unnamed official claiming that the guards were "forced to defend themselves." But Sergiu Matei, a climber and cameraman for Romania's ProTV, which later broadcast his footage of the shooting, asserts: "That was not self-defense. [The refugees] were clearly passing through Nangpa La and running from the police, who shot them like dogs...
...career has followed an eccentric path. A junior swimming champion, Gelmetti initially studied composition and classical guitar before finding a mentor in the somewhat mystical figure of Sergiu Celibidache, the Romanian-born conductor who famously declared that recorded music was like kissing a dead woman. As principal conductor at the Stuttgart Radio Symphony and the Monte Carlo Philharmonic, Gelmetti later found success - but not fame. Instead, when the SSO's then artistic administrator began telling international arts managers about Gelmetti's appointment in 2002, "many of them had never heard of him," Calnin recalls. "I think it's because...
...Bulldogs (10-6) battled back to tie the match at 3-3 after three close, well-contested matches went in their favor, and Beren’s match against Sergiu Modoc at No. 6 had to be halted due to the rain with him leading 3-2 in the third...
...recording of Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto with Kleiber and the late Arturo Michelangeli, had it not been aborted at the first rehearsal. Granted, bootleg recordings of his rare concert appearances have kept more than one Italian label busy, but his extreme reluctance to record has inevitably elicited comparisons with Sergiu Celibidache, well-known for his remark that listening to recordings is much like fornicating with a picture of Brigitte Bardot...
...advantage in parliamentary elections slated for May 20. Some charge that the Front may attempt to rig the balloting. Critics say almost 90% of the group's members are former Communists. Iliescu's vow that a "return to the past is impossible" has failed to reassure his detractors. Says Sergiu Cunescu, chairman of the center-right Social Democratic Party: "People live in fear...