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Proof of that may have come earlier this month when human-rights and opposition activist Yana Palyakova, was found hanged in her home in Salihorsk, in southern Belarus. Palyakova, 33, had committed suicide just days after being sentenced to two and a half years in detention and a $350 fine for slandering a police officer, whom she had accused of beating her while in police custody in November last year. The day before Palyakova's death, the state-run newspaper Sovietskaya Belorussiya, or Soviet Belarus, had published an article mocking her and her complaint. "The state drove her to suicide...
...quite wonderfully, and she's a tireless compiler of biological trivia. She scours the extremes of the earth for anomalous and specially adapted humans, like the Tierra del Fuegians, who (before they died out) wore no more than a loose animal skin even in sleet and snow, and the Yana Indians of California, whose men and women speak different dialects. She has an engaging passion for rankings, as if all earthly fauna were competitors in an endless evolutionary Olympics. Our sense of taste, for example, outperforms a pigeon's and a tiger's (it turns out that tigers...
...leaving the team score tied 3-3. Playing in the No. 2 singles position, captain Preethi Mukundan found herself in a highly competitive match. Mukundan lost the first set 6-2, but seemed to turn the match around in the second. Up 3-1, Mukundan successfully staved off opponent Yana Sadovskaya’s attempt to break her serve. Mukundan then won the next four games, winning the second set and taking a 1-0 lead in the third. At that point, the effect of six and a half hours of tennis caught up with Mukundan, and she began struggling...
Five centuries after the first foreigners arrived, Bombay is once again attracting fortune seekers from far away. Yana Gupta's journey began in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1988 when she was 9 and her mother Dedenka stitched money and jewelry into her two daughters' clothes and took them on vacation to Croatia. "On the bus on the way back to Czechoslovakia," remembers Gupta, "we got down somewhere and went into some forest. The idea was to get to Germany. But the border guards caught us." The next year, Vaclav Havel led Czechoslovakia's revolution. But Gupta's mother had sown...
...court during the fall has earned them a No. 6 ranking in the nation. The No. 1 Crimson pair triumphed 8-3 over the Terriers’ Gina Sabatino and Monica Shepherd, and junior Preethi Mukundan and freshman Laura Peterzan rolled over BU’s Erin Katims and Yana Sadovskaya in the No. 3 position by a score of 8-2 to complete the sweep. “Everybody just had a solid day, and we were a lot more solid than the other team,” O’Riain said. Harvard allowed very few points across...