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...months pregnant when captured by Japanese troops in 1938 and conscripted into one of Shanghai's 83 "comfort centers." Along with 15 other surviving comfort women from various Asian countries, Zhu joined an ongoing class-action lawsuit against the Japanese government filed in the U.S. in 2000. "Her only wish was to get justice," her son, Zhou Xin, said in a statement to Chinese media after her death...
...moment, DJ Sci-Fi played “Back In the Day” by Ahmad and Nwazota began singing along with the chorus: “Back in the days when I was young, I’m not a kid anymore, but some days I sit and wish I was a kid again...
Odell said, “I wish he were still here. He was one of the most entertaining and talented people I knew...
...enlargement before approving a reworked version 16 months later. Former E.U. Competition Commissioner Mario Monti urges that in case of a rejection, the holdouts should be offered a final take-it-or-leave-it proposition. The second time around, Monti says, the question should be: "Do you wish your country to be part of the E.U. and adopt the constitution or do you wish your country to leave the E.U.?" But a no vote doesn't automatically mean ejection or even the death of the constitution. A more likely scenario, says Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform...
...doesn't always take a work of art to provide that kind of lasting connection or legacy. Matthew Wiederkehr's final wish, after learning in December 2003 that he had fatal colorectal cancer, was to make a difference in the lives of other cancer patients. So Wiederkehr, then 33, a sales manager for Google and the father of two, asked a childhood friend, Randy Reiff, to help him start a foundation to make cancer treatment more humane. Throughout his illness, Wiederkehr repeatedly used the phrase "I promise" in conversations with his wife Jennifer Wiederkehr and Reiff. "I promise...