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...More than five years later, Darwin has miraculously re-emerged - under strikingly peculiar circumstances. The 57-year-old former prison guard strolled into a police station on London's fashionable Savile Row Saturday and told officers, "I think I am a missing person." Darwin provided his name, birth date and address, but said he had no idea where he had been since vanishing. He was declared legally dead...
...didn't believe the no vote had a chance. Despite that atmosphere, and a persistent opposition conviction that the results could be fraudulent, the nascent student movement helped galvanize many detractors to vote. When students took to the streets to protest the forced shutdown of the opposition-aligned television station Radio Caracas Television earlier this year, the country had all but forgotten that the universities were one of the very few sectors of society left that was not yet controlled by the government. On that occasion, young people staged their largest protests after the TV station had already gone...
...added that he only found out someone had died at the police station later that morning...
...been a debate-team champion, traveled for brief stints on scholarships he'd won to study civics in the U.S., Slovenia and Bulgaria, and served two terms as high school class president. He'd also had a blast, working late nights in his teens at a local radio station and playing drums in a rock band...
...transformation was radical. In the village of Matta, the police post sported a new sign: "Taliban Station." So did the precinct in Kabal. In Kalam village, Dr. Fazli Raziq's barber disappeared, driven out of business by a new edict prohibiting men from shaving their beards. Fazli's wife, Zaibi, stopped leaving the house, preferring to stay inside rather than replace her headscarf with the freshly mandated shuttlecock burqa that left only a mesh opening for the eyes. Then militants threatened to bomb their daughter's school. All in all, five out of seven subdistricts - some 68 villages - in this...