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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Javed, who weighs 148 lbs., started crying. Perhaps to torment him, Javed says, his attackers told him to ring the bell that contacts the jailers. A woman answered the intercom, and Javed says he begged, "Please get me out of here. They are beating me up." No one came to his aid, and the beatings intensified. Javed was thrown to the floor and told to take off his clothes. He refused, but one of his attackers removed his clothes anyway and ordered Javed to run naked around the cell. He did. The man had pinned Javed to the floor when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Detained: A Beating On The Way Back Home | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

Murphy wasn’t kidding. After missing a combined 10-of-14 field goal attempts last year, Blewett and Wright have endured endless torment...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Murphy Helps Crimson Get Back To The Basics | 11/15/2001 | See Source »

Murphy wasn’t kidding. After missing a combined 10-of-14 field goal attempts last year, Blewett and Wright have endured endless torment...

Author: By Brian E. Falon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Murphy Guides Football to Dream Season | 11/14/2001 | See Source »

...space and equipment of the Leland Center to effectively distinguish dialogue from soliloquy. As the ex-smokers turn to the audience to show their true colors, they are bathed in haunting red light. Yet tech work cannot supply the substance that the script lacks. If there is deep emotional torment in ceasing tobacco use, it is not found here...

Author: By Benjamin W. Olson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Boiler Offers Uneven Triple-Decker | 11/2/2001 | See Source »

...show’s interactivity, that means unavoidable contact with the actors, each of whom takes time away from the onstage performance to torment those sitting in the audience. A warning to prospective theatergoers: If you’re an attractive young woman sporting a little cleavage, the priest is likely to help tuck your dinner napkin into the top of your low-cut dress. Men of consenting age will be unable to avoid Joey’s gay cousin Carmine, a man whose distinctive talents include folding napkins into ornate phalluses and placing them on the laps of those...

Author: By Nathan Burstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fughettabout Good Taste, Enjoy Good Fun | 10/19/2001 | See Source »

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