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...grip on his followers, just as he locked up his playmates in a barn in Indiana. He found ways to take control of and isolate his members from their families and from the outside. One of the things that he did was press them to give up their belongings, sign over their houses in some cases, sign over custody of their children. One of the cruelest things, I thought, was that he had them sign false confessions that they had sexually molested their children-which, of course, left those members vulnerable and bound them in a perverse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: A Jonestown Survivor Remembers | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...making excuses for its performance down the stretch.“We should be able to handle the physical side of going to overtime over and over again,” junior defender Lizzy Nichols said. “I think it’s a sign of mental toughness to go through the hard-fought battle and get through,” she added.HIGH IMPACTIf Harvard wasn’t making excuses for its performance by citing fatigue or game conditions, it certainly wasn’t going to blame injuries. But losses sustained both before and during...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Penalty Kicks a Fitting Way to End a Long, Trying Game and Crimson’s Season | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...shootout 4-2.The team was strong to the end, but sometimes, the fates do not align.“We should be able to handle the physical part of going to overtime over and over,” Nichols said. “I think it’s a sign of the mental toughness to continue to go into these overtimes. Sometimes you win, sometimes you don’t.”It looked for a while this hard play would pay off with a win for the Crimson.With the game tied 1-1 after junior Christina Hagner tallied...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Penalty Kicks End Crimson's NCAA Charge | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...shift in recounting residual votes. "The bigger issue is how we handle these absentee ballots [which are the subject of the Franken lawsuit]," he says. Mark Jeranek, who voted for Franken, cast an absentee ballot in Beltrami County, located in northwestern Minnesota, that was rejected because he didn't sign the envelope in which he placed his ballot. The Franken campaign sent him an affidavit that he is considering signing. "I don't want to be a cause for revolution, but at the same time I want my vote to count," the 39-year-old environmental consultant says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coleman and Franken: Fighting over the Minnesota Recount | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...Beyond being yet another sign of the group's much-heralded decline, however, the arrest also could also work to the advantage of those nationalists seeking to break with ETA's violent tactics. Txeroki was the hardest of hardliners. Thirty-five years old, he moved across the border to France in 2002, and rose quickly through ETA's hierarchy. He is believed to have ordered the December 2006 bombing of a car park at Madrid's Barajas airport, which killed two people and put a definite end to the ceasefire the group had declared earlier that year. Other ETA members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain's Most Wanted Terrorist Caught | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

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