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...older artist, who offered him drawing lessons using recycled newspaper or sticks in the sand and described the paintings of Van Gogh and Picasso. "I had some images of them in my mind," Htein Lin says, laughing. "Of course, it was nothing like the reality." After murderous factional violence broke out among the rebels, he returned to Rangoon, where he continued performing and drawing. In 1998, a fellow former dissident happened to mention his name in a letter intercepted by authorities, and Htein Lin was hauled off by the secret police...
...stand trial here Friday on charges he videotaped himself having sex with a female whom the authorities say he knew was at least 13 years old. The case has dragged on since 2002, for often bizarre reasons: One time, because Kelly needed an appendectomy. Another time, the presiding judge broke several bones while climbing a ladder. One of the case's lead prosecutors had a baby. Then, last December, Kelly failed to make a scheduled court appearance because Utah police stopped his speeding tour bus. Just today, the Chicago Tribune reports that Kelly's defense team filed a motion...
...globalization and communism's end have created criminal networks. In Africa, for example, proxy conflicts of the cold-war continent mutated into much more deadly struggles between criminally financed militias over minerals. Nowhere was this more clear than in the awful war in the Democratic Republic of Congo that broke out in 1998. In large measure, the war was driven by complex criminal conspiracies. A map of the main zones of conflict between the various armies and militias coincides with a map of the concentration of the D.R.C.'s natural resources. Militias pillaged anything they could find, be it timber...
Days after news broke that MIT was spending $90.5 million to purchase four buildings in the Cambridgeport neighborhood, university officials downplayed the acquisition saying that the buildings were routine real estate investments...
...four of which came in the first inning.Madick ended her fourth and final season for Harvard with eight wins, five saves, and 109 strikeouts, passing the century mark for the second straight year.PRINCETON 4, HARVARD 2In the opening game of the championship series, a short string of Tigers hits broke a tie in their favor. With the score at 2-2 in the bottom of the sixth, a single to left followed by back-to-back doubles drove in the two deciding runs. On the board early, the Crimson’s first two runs came from solo home runs...