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...Roger Cheng, a third-year student at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Vaghar was an intern at a local law firm offering her apartment for cheap because she was headed to Yale for a joint JD-MBA program. To Theo Vanderzee, a 26-year-old consultant, she was a paralegal from Brooklyn going to New York University Law School next year. And to others, she was an undergraduate at the College...
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...
...stories like that broke the world's collective heart, so did the scraps of paper pinned up along the broken coastlines. There were photographs of the dead in India. Thailand had messages like "Try and contact us, Mum and Dad. Love, Louis and Theo" and a leaflet offering $10,000 for any information about a Swedish family--a mother, father and four children. As the full horror of the death toll in Aceh became apparent at the end of the week, it was clear that in countries other than Indonesia, the count could still rise. Five days after the tsunami...
...responded with an offseason almost solely focused on crushing the Yankees. They went out and acquired Curt Schilling from the Diamondbacks, perhaps because they had heard that he wanted to be traded to only the Yankees and that George Steinbrenner, of course, lusted after åhim. Theo Epstein was able to put together a package to acquire Schilling, and his next move waså to attempt to acquire Alex Rodriguez from the Texas Rangers and rid himself of the albatross of a contract that the Red Sox owed to Manny Ramirez...
...schools are attacked and mosques vandalized and set ablaze--with a severed pig's head left as a calling card outside one of them. Can all that really be happening in the calm, tolerant, liberal Netherlands? The answer is yes. Minutes after the Nov. 2 slaying of firebrand filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who recently aired a controversial movie on Islam's alleged abuse of women, a Muslim with suspected terrorist ties was arrested for the murder, touching off a religious backlash that reached all the way to Parliament. As one politician went into hiding after being marked for death...