Word: commit
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...constant isolation from one another in cells infested with scorpions, rats, cockroaches and fleas. Their possessions, including family photos, were destroyed by sadistic guards in a bonfire. After 15 years of misery came the "Night of the Long Knives": Malika's mother Fatima and her eldest son tried to commit suicide, and Malika slit the wrists of a sister in a frenzied but failed attempt to end her suffering. More striking than the cruelty the Oufkirs endured, however, is their heroic will to overcome it. Despite their weak state and a formidable force of prison guards, they spent years planning...
...initial choice for the role of Jen, the young beauty who steals the sword, the center of the kung fu epic's plot. "Physically, she's incredible," Lee enthused at the time. Shu Qi was on board?for eight weeks. Then manager Wong pulled her because he had committed her to a Japanese tea commercial for Coca-Cola. "She was supposed to shoot from April to November," Wong says, "but it turned out she had a previously existing contract." Lee told Wong his big-budget film required the cast to be on hand every day and couldn't release...
...pittance. Han Dong Jun and his older brother Dong Shik raise herbs and medicinal plants on a patch of cleared forest land for a Chinese farmer in a remote stretch of mountainside frontier. They say he won't pay them until the the crop is ready or commit to how much he'll give them. As illegal immigrants, they have nowhere to turn...
...very hard to tell who's capable of what. One woman might be screaming "I'm going to kill my children," and she'd be the most stable of the bunch because she's actually venting. And then the quiet one who keeps things bottled up will commit some terrible crime. After someone does something like this, it's very standard to hear friends and neighbors of the accused say, "Oh, she was such a quiet person. I can't believe she did this." That's because everything was percolating inside...
...victims loathe seeing these young killers in the media again, the story of their present harsh reality is exactly what needs to be publicized in the news. Perhaps if the youth of this country knew what kind of life a moment of revenge leads to, fewer of them would commit these tragic crimes. LORRAINE HARLAND San Diego...