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...Forestry Protection Bureau in Quang Nam, the province where the typhoon made landfall on Sept. 29. The storm was one of the most powerful to hit Vietnam in the past 50 years, killing at least 164 people. The highest number of deaths occurred in the mountainous province of Kon Tum, after heavy rains triggered flash flooding and landslides. At least two villages were completely buried. (See pictures of Ketsana's damage in Manila...
...British music and theater. He was a member of the boy band “North and South,” which produced a top-10 hit on the British charts. His West End runs as Marius in “Les Miserables” and the Rum Tum Tugger in “Cats” complemented his fiercely independent city lifestyle. But at the age of 23, Lowe found that it was the “perfect (time) to pull the reins and slow down” by switching gears to academia...
...These grievances have occasionally boiled over into antigovernment protests. Last Easter weekend, several thousand Montagnards gathered in Dak Lak, Gia Lai and Kon Tum provinces and clashed with waiting security forces. It was the largest show of protest in Vietnam since 2001, when similar demonstrations occurred in the same region. On this, both sides agree. On every other point, bitter disputes rage. The Communist Party of Vietnam insists that only two people died during the April clashes; Human Rights Watch, the New York City-based NGO, has recorded 10 deaths, while Amnesty International counts eight and says it "fears...
Unlike his character Cliff Bradshaw, Thomas P. Lowe ’05 is no étranger to said attention. Lowe starred as Murius in Les Miserables from 1998 to 2000 and Rum Tum Tugger in Cats from 2000 to 2001 on London’s West End. His biggest claim to fame, however, comes as a member of the British boy band “North and South.” At 19, his band’s single “Man, Not a Boy,” jumped to number seven on the U.K charts and reached...
...Miserables. While the fame issue was much less prominent as a star of musical theater, Tom still found opportunities to expose himself to the public eye, especially when he posed nude (with all the appropriate places covered) for a trendy British magazine. He went on to play the Rum Tum Tugger in Cats, a role that was not as musically satisfying as his previous one, but offered a lot more flexibility. “I could really make it my own,” he relates. After ten months of prancing around in a leotard and waving his paws...