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...attending school here weren’t reason enough, administrators have given Harvard students yet another good excuse to slit our wrists. The American Red Cross, always one to capitalize on a good rivalry—terrorism versus freedom, man versus nature—will pit Elis and Cantabs in a competitive blood drive that’s sure to settle once and for all which school has the most blueblood running through its veins. As always, gay blood not welcome. (No, no, it’s true! After all, it is the Red Cross...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, Adam P. Schneider, and Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: GADFLY | 2/10/2005 | See Source »

Terror Tactics THE NETHERLANDS In a procedural hearing in the case against Mohammed Bouyeri, the alleged killer of controversial filmmaker Theo van Gogh, judges were told that Bouyeri twice ignored Van Gogh's pleas for mercy. Prosecutors said that Bouyeri first shot Van Gogh dead, then slit his throat, and that the gruesome slaying was intended to terrify the Dutch population. Bouyeri, who faces charges ranging from murder to impeding democracy, waived his right to attend the court. His trial is expected to start before the summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worldwatch | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

...Gogh, a great-grandnephew of the artist Vincent van Gogh, had just finished a film about Fortuyn when he was murdered. Amsterdam's public prosecutor says Mohammed B. shot Van Gogh as he cycled to his studio, then slit his throat and impaled a five-page letter to his body with a knife. The act was apparently in retaliation for Van Gogh's film Submission, a graphic look at abused Muslim women that was broadcast on Dutch television in August. Calling Van Gogh's murder part of a wider terrorist plot, the prosecutor's office arrested five men - four Moroccans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Limits Of Tolerance | 11/14/2004 | See Source »

...named Lau, gestures toward a pig in a nearby butcher shop. "A man in a pair of bloodied shorts stepped up to it, grabbed one ear and yanked it back," writes Booth. "The pig squealed, an eerie, unearthly sound. The butcher ran a sharp knife under its neck and slit its throat, stepping smartly backwards. The pig fell on its side, thrashing about and gurgling obscenely. Blood sprayed from its neck. Lau put his hands on my shoulder in an affable manner and said, 'You talk [about what Booth had seen in the Walled City], maybe you [end up] like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong's Golden Boy | 8/8/2004 | See Source »

...chicken was either “shocked” through starvation or disoriented by artificial lighting to overeat and, as a result, suffer obesity conditions like heart attacks. Ultimately, when the hen became huge, it was hung upside-down, had its legs snapped into metal shackles, its throat slit open, only to be immersed in scalding hot water for feather removal while staying conscious through the entire process...

Author: By Asya Troychansky, | Title: A Pet Cause | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

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