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...Seoul, certainly loves his cutlery. Last Aug. 13, the day Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi stirred Korean anger over his country's wartime past by visiting Yasukuni Shrine?a notorious symbol of Japanese militarism?13 of Cho's men sent a message to Tokyo. Draped in Korean flags, they knelt on the ground in Independence Park in Seoul and each laid a pinkie finger on a flat, wooden scything board. As television cameras rolled, they lopped off the last joint, wrapped the bloody stubs in a Korean flag and headed off to present them to the Japanese embassy. Police stopped...
...residents were camped in parks and on the sidewalks outside their damaged homes. In Pachchao, a village in the salt desert not far from the epicenter, Dawod Ismail Siddhi cried, "There is nothing left between the sky and the earth any more. Everything has been demolished." His sister Banu knelt beside a rope cot bearing the corpses of her two children. Republic Day is an occasion for India to show off its prodigious military might. This year nature overshadowed it with an awesome display of its own destructive power...
...fire with rifles. Back in the Islamabad safe house, a coded message came through at 2:15 p.m. saying the men had reached their target. Abu Ammar, a 30-year-old Pakistani veteran of the Afghan war?his face is scarred from shrapnel and his right hand is mangled?knelt and touched his forehead to the floor in prayer. "I have learned that whenever you succeed in your mission, just bow down, thank God and hail his greatness," he said. After a three-hour gun battle at the airport's perimeter, all six of Abu Ammar's men were dead...
There is nothing left between the sky and the earth anymore," said Dawod Ismail Siddhi of Pachchao, India, a town near the epicenter of the earthquake that has left an estimated 15,000 people dead and thousands more injured or homeless. "Everything has been demolished." Nearby his sister Banu knelt beside a cot bearing the corpses of her two children...
...John Ashcroft was sworn in to the Senate in January 1995, he met with his ailing father and some friends in a home near the Capitol. After hymn singing and words of heartfelt advice, the Rev. J. Robert Ashcroft, a titan in the Pentecostal Assemblies of God denomination, knelt beside his son and anointed his forehead. He used some Crisco cooking oil from the kitchen...