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...singled out by captors, who brutalized him repeatedly over 71/2 years and held him in solitary confinement for four years. Inspiring fellow POWS, including Senator John McCain, with the motto Unity over Self, he disfigured his face to ensure he would not be used in a propaganda film, slit his wrists to show he would rather die than submit and created a secret POW communications system. According to his citation, his defiance led the North Vietnamese to reduce their use of torture, deciding that it was ineffective...
During her first training sessions at Harvard, she boldly wore spandex and revealing slit T-shirt outfits, earning the nickname “Cleave” from her teammates...
...contends, knew exactly how to beguile America, one day with images of the mysterious East, the next with snapshots of God-fearing, Westernized democrats battling the Red Menace. While Harvard-educated T.V. wheedled millions out of his poker buddies in Washington, Wellesley Graduate May-ling wooed Congress with her slit skirt and florid rhetoric. In the process, the Soongs also hypnotized such powerful cheerleaders as Henry Luce and Columnist Joseph Alsop, who saw in them the lineaments of a progressive new China, ready to enter the American Century...
...Ojibwa Nation in Minnesota. The terrifying revelation of Columbine was that caring parents could overlook signs of trouble in their offspring; the trouble in Red Lake centered on a clearly confused young man who had no parent to turn to for counsel or support, who used box cutters to slit his wrists in abortive suicide attempts even as he experimented with identities in the shadows of cyberspace...
Later that night, David wakes up and discovers his wife is missing. He quickly discovers her in the bathroom with her wrists slit. His screams fill the air with horror, waking young Emily who sees her dead mother...