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...Responsibility for the abductions was claimed by a Taliban splinter group. Suffocation Inquiry THAILAND Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra pledged that an independent inquiry would investigate the deaths of 78 Muslim men who were crushed and suffocated to death in military custody, and that "wrongdoers" would be punished. Several bombs shook Thailand's mainly Muslim south, killing at least two people, following the deaths of the 78, who had been crammed into army trucks after a violent protest by separatists. Rape Sentences PITCAIRN ISLAND Four men on tiny Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific were sentenced to up to six years...
...worked hard to make the fabrics realistic (it took three months to nail one brief scene of Bob sticking his finger through a hole in his superhero costume). Another challenge was making the hair look natural. Violet's long, floppy mane kept flying off her head every time she shook it. When producer John Walker pressed the lead simulator to diagnose the problem, he was told, "Dammit, long hair is still theoretical...
They stood in formation for almost half an hour before President Bush showed up, and when he did, according to Davies, he made a five-minute speech, got his picture taken, shook the hands of some people in the front row, and left. “I was rather bitter that the President couldn’t even take the time to shake my hand,” Davies lamented. “In previous years President Clinton did a receiving line and shook the hand of every single Olympian...Some of my friends and I were joking that...
...formed on a patch of grass as the afternoon sun slanted through the branches of a young tree in the yard. The grass was still wet from a morning rain and the sunlight sparkled as it hit the water drops. I watched for a few moments as the branches shook and the shadows shifted. Then I reached up, grabbed a low-hanging branch, and gave it a tug. The lacy pattern of sunlight and shadow leapt and danced and the branch swung wildly. I think I could have stayed there pulling on that branch and watching those shadows dance until...
...awaited a verdict in the Alexander Pring-Wilson murder trial. The case “worries those who believe that tensions between town and gown could explode,” according to Herald “reporter” Claire Prentice, who also asserts that Harvard students are so shook up by the case that “few want to talk publicly about it.” (Tell that to the Crimson news board...