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...been identified as a missing 31-year-old Waltham man, according to Jake Wark, a spokesman for Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley. The name of the individual has not yet been released. Initial attempts to ascertain the body’s age, race, and gender proved fruitless because of its advanced state of decomposition, according to Wark, but the body was ultimately identified through dental records. An autopsy was performed yesterday to gain more information, including the cause of death. The district attorney’s office suspects no foul play at this time, as the individual...
...siege like a live castle, whose walls, alas, are pathetically weak.”In this city of walking dead, Vargalas endures a lone struggle for survival. This struggle is manifested in a search for vital signs of Lithuanian identity—a quest that’s fruitless until Vargalas stumbles headfirst into a live pulse: Lolita, the determinedly unchaste daughter of a brutal KGB colonel. In typical tragic fashion, a love story unfolds between the pair, but it becomes clear that Lolita is, like the rest of Lithuania, damaged goods—corrupted as much by the sinister...
...planning. He presented his decision as a conciliatory gesture, arguing that “for too long, international family planning assistance has been…the subject of a back-and-forth debate that has served only to divide us. I have no desire to continue this stale and fruitless debate.” In this claim Obama is half-correct. He has indeed avoided a nuanced debate on this controversial policy, but his firm, agonistic posture on the issue is likely to trip up efforts to provide workable reproductive health services to women abroad and common ground...
After two years of fruitless attempts, the Undergraduate Council took its first step toward providing students with cable television in their dorms as part of a pilot program run by an outside vendor. Though the UC overwhelmingly passed a bill yesterday requiring its members to e-mail their House lists about the opportunity, the council declined to formally put its stamp of approval on the project, known as Crimson Cable, because of fears of legal liability. Crimson Cable, founded and headed by Nicholas J. Castine ’10, plans to conduct a trial run that would provide 100 students...
...perhaps the most extraordinary turn has been his recent conversion to the cause of full independence for Tibet - standing apart from both his father and the Dalai Lama. Thirty years of negotiation have been fruitless, he says, and China has not made any effort to acknowledge the demands of the Tibetan people for autonomy. "There is a generation's difference between my father and myself," he says. His father is an old-school diplomat, while Thondop isn't shy about openly criticizing the current Chinese leadership. He calls them "a bunch of cheats and liars" for denying that Deng...