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...espionage; by Beijing's No. 2 Intermediate Court; in Beijing. After his arrest in April 2005, state media reported that Ching confessed to selling military secrets to Taiwan and setting up a spy network, but rights groups called the charges baseless, and Ching's wife said he was a victim of entrapment. His sentencing was seen as a setback for journalism in China. "This is our darkest day," Hong Kong Journalists Association chairwoman Serenade Woo said last Thursday. "We are extremely unsatisfied with the verdict...
...Unable to speak of his experiences, least of all to his fellow-dancer girlfriend (Anna Torv) who promptly leaves him, he is like any victim of atrocity or war: a sleepwalker through his own nightmare. In the way Daniel unconsciously seeks out his female assailants, abandoning himself to a promiscuous life before finding the promise of love with Aboriginal student Julie (Deborah Mailman), The Book of Revelation is as insightful as you could wish for on the topic of post-traumatic stress...
Widener Library: 1. Titanic library built in memory of a Titanic drowning victim. 2. Home to the stacks, where students go to pore over books. Yup, nothing but readin’ in these stacks...
Republican Senator George Allen of Virginia, a sunny conservative, had hoped to use his re-election race this year to build the machinery for a White House run in 2008. Last week he became the first political victim of the phenomenal YouTube era. Allen is videotaped at each campaign stop by a "tracker" for his Democratic opponent, James Webb. Such operatives are standard on the stump, and aides warn candidates to ignore them. But Allen, speaking at a rural picnic, took the bait. He singled out the Webb volunteer, who is of Indian descent, telling the crowd to welcome "Macaca...
...course, Karr's putative pedophilia would not make him guilty of murder. Nor would it explain why Karr might have killed JonBenet. "A child molester who abducts and kills his victim is the rarest kind of molester," says Ken Lanning, a former FBI agent who has spent more than three decades studying crimes against children, and currently operates his own consulting company. Questions and inconsistencies in Karr's story make Lanning cautious about believing Karr's claims. "My reaction to all of this is that until [the police] independently corroborate what he's confessing to, it doesn't mean anything...