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...engulfed in flames. At a recent Spee event, decorative candles placed at the base of a giant and highly flammable stuffed bear were amazingly toyed with by drunken guests, giving Smokey something to really complain about. One of the many Spee’s to flee, Wes E. Stroberman ’04, claims to have been inspired to go outside and have a cigarette upon encountering the fire. When asked if he had been at all inspired to also extinguish the fire, Stroberman reported, indeed he had, but only after putting his cigarette...
...Chul Soo chose to flee without his North Korean sons, daughters and grandchildren. (He insists on using a pseudonym to protect them.) He hopes they can join him one day. But even after returning home after five decades as a prisoner, his family is sundered by a long...
...Crisis Looming DOMINICAN REPUBLIC At least six people died in clashes with police during a 48-hour strike to protest the spiraling economic crisis. The strike, which organizers said closed 97% of businesses, came as the U.S. Coast Guard struggles to stem a growing exodus of Dominicans trying to flee by boat to Puerto Rico. MEANWHILE IN DENMARK ... If You Can't Do The Time The government ordered an inquiry following a report in the Ekstra Bladet newspaper that convicts were paying stand-ins to serve their prison sentences for them. The paper said that the substitutes, who charge between...
...Gujarat, Hindus embarked on a rampage that left about 2,000 Muslims dead. The police stood by while local BJP activists armed with swords, tridents and electoral lists raped Muslim women; beheaded, burned and disemboweled Muslim men, and torched Muslim-owned businesses. Tens of thousands were forced to flee. No one has yet been brought to book for the mayhem, and the Gujarat courts have proved incapable of convicting the rapists, looters or murderers...
...When the flames neared the dwelling of Sonya Graoso, a 44-year-old housewife, she tried to flee with her daughter and two-year-old twin granddaughters. A neighbor offered her a boat to get away?for a fee she couldn't afford. Another neighbor with a boat took pity on the family, but thieves stopped them and demanded loot. "My daughter had bought new shoes?the only pair she owns?last Christmas," says Graoso. "They were snatched from...