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...have lost a dear old friend and teacher...
...from a small portion of traffic victims, most of the organs from cadavers are from executed prisoners." HUANG JIEFU, Chinese Vice Minister of Health, acknowledging that China harvests organs from executed prisoners for transplants, a practice it has long denied "We may have lost a dear old friend and teacher." michael meyer, NASA scientist, announcing that the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft had fallen silent after nearly 10 years of beaming data on the planet back to Earth-more than double its expected life "I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project." RUPERT...
...father, a well-known local official, angered militants by negotiating the release of state employees being held hostage by a mob protesting the arrest of a suspected insurgent. Ma-ae believes his father was killed on the orders of the cell's leader, a former Islamic teacher in his 40s who often passes Ma-ae in the street. "He still smiles at me," he says...
...attack. That assault will likely be brutal. In October a 3-year-old girl died of bullet wounds from a drive-by shooting that killed both her parents, while five Buddhist monks were injured by a bomb planted on their morning alms route; in July a primary school teacher was shot dead in front of his pupils. While Buddhist police and soldiers are still the prime targets, these days the militants are killing just as many Muslim civilians. Anyone who joins the government's Thaksin-era job-creation scheme?like Ma-ae's cousin, shot dead by militants in October...
...Beyond that, it seems to me that we have been too often in these classrooms, once again asked to be amused by restless lads and to admire their odd-ball teacher. But director Nicholas Hytner's film version of a play everyone thought was "cinematic? (mostly because it contained some film pieces) is an improvement on the original. It has a flow and an intimacy that the often awkward theatrical version lacked. And it employs the same cast that played it in London and New York and the relatively minor changes Bennett has made in adapting it to the screen...