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...Victim Fights Back Your report on "Asia's Heroes" [Oct. 11] included a feature on Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman who successfully fought the injustice of local tribal law. After Mai was gang-raped on the orders of a self-appointed village council (to preserve the tribal honor of a local clan), she courageously pursued her case in the courts despite the threat of further violence. Mai won, and six men involved in her rape were punished; two of them were sentenced to death. That is a tremendous example for women across the world who are suffering from similar atrocities...
...Standing beside Powell last week, Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon insisted his government had nothing to hide. "We're handling this in a transparent manner," he said. Officials and lawmakers in Seoul are seething over the international scrutiny, saying their country is the victim of a double standard because their ancient rival Japan is allowed to enrich uranium and separate plutonium to run reactors. "Every nation that pursues the full use of nuclear technology inevitably gets close to weapons technology," says Kim Tae Woo, a nuclear analyst at the government-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses. "So what is wrong...
...loss to Dartmouth, then 1-5, proved that. Regardless of who was under center, Harvard had bludgeoned opponents on the ground and through the air in each of its six wins, averaging nearly 38 points a game. But when the offense languished and the secondary fell victim to a series of miraculous completions, the Crimson’s title hopes fizzled. The Big Green wasn’t better—just, on that day, more resilient. When push came to shove in each of Harvard’s three 2003 defeats, the Crimson came away empty handed...
...entire Commission, Barroso withdrew his team - "the outcome will not be positive for European institutions," he said drily - and promised a new proposal within a month. On Saturday, once it was clear that Berlusconi couldn't save him, Buttiglione threw in the towel, saying he was "an innocent victim ... of a crude and superficial campaign in the press." His resignation was the inevitable coda to the month's main theme: a newly assertive and triumphant European Parliament...
...victim told police that he had just broken up with the sister of one of the suspects, according to an article in The Times of Trenton...