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...dead, but last Thursday the 23-year-old civil servant from the district of Tak Bai in Thailand's southern Narathiwat province volunteered to act as a coffin-bearer at a funeral for 22 men. They were among 85 killed when what started as a peaceful protest outside the local police station went horribly wrong. Now, three days later, as rifle-toting soldiers stood watch, the shrouded bodies were first laid out under the hot sun on a field next to the 380-year-old ironwood Wadi al-Hussein mosque. Prayers were said. Then, amid the pervasive stink of decay...
...Muslim men who were crushed and suffocated to death in military custody, and that "wrongdoers" would be punished. Several bombs shook Thailand's mainly Muslim south, killing at least two people, following the deaths of the 78, who had been crammed into army trucks after a violent protest by separatists. Rape Sentences PITCAIRN ISLAND Four men on tiny Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific were sentenced to up to six years in prison for rapes and indecent assaults on women and girls over four decades. They included Mayor Steve Christian, who was sentenced to three years for five rapes...
Skippered by junior Jessica Baker and with sophomore Emily Simon at crew, the first boat took tenth in the A-division. The duo finished second twice but was disqualified three times—twice because of other boats’ protests and once because of its own failed protest...
...guess what: consumers should be big winners. Only a few online agents will thrive, and to stay in the game they will need to woo travelers with a wide range of offerings. Silverman, through a spokesman, and Diller protest any suggestion that the two are butting heads. They are friends who lunch together, and there's room for both, they say. Making the point, Diller notes that last month their companies inked a deal in which IAC's Hotels.com and Expedia will prominently display on their websites Cendant hotels, which include Days Inn, Travelodge and Howard Johnson. "While we compete...
...convict William Horton, a murderer who had fled Massachusetts during a prison furlough and then stabbed a man and raped his fiancé. Republicans said Dukakis had turned his state's prison gates into "a revolving door." Dukakis pointed out that he had actually ended the furlough program, but his protest was late and languid. Bush won comfortably...