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Litigious parents are also to blame for the tough line. After Elizabeth Shin died in 2000 in a dorm-room fire at M.I.T. within hours of threatening to kill herself, the sophomore's parents filed a $27 million lawsuit against her psychiatrists, as well as her house master and a dean of student life, for failing to take adequate precautions. (They had scheduled an appointment to see her the following day.) When a judge last year refused to throw out the suit, alarm bells went off in administrative offices across the country. "To hold a university liable for simply trying...
Balmert shot a 76 in round one and a 39 for the first nine holes of the second round before play was cancelled, and finished three shots ahead of Yale’s Cindy Shin to take the individual medal...
...DIED. SHIN SANG OK, 80, South Korean film director whose life story became the stuff of spy thrillers when he and his movie-star wife were kidnapped by North Korean agents in 1978; in Seoul. One of the South's most prominent directors in the 1960s and '70s?his 1958 film Jiokhwa featured the country's first on-screen kiss?Shin and wife Choi Eun Hee were abducted because North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, a movie buff, wanted to boost his country's film industry. Shin and Choi made a dozen movies at Kim's behest before staging...
...right) are crony capitalists who bully their opposition and the media. To their supporters, they're men of action, a welcome contrast to ineffective leaders of the past. Now, however, both have problems: Thaksin faces street protests demanding he resign over the $1.87 billion sale of his family's Shin Corp. media empire, while Fininvest media mogul Berlusconi, trailing in the polls before Italy's April 9-10 election, is accused of conspiring to give false testimony in a corruption case against him. They have other things in common...
...Shin Corp. owns Thai mobile-phone operator AIS as well as a major television network...