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...campus just five weeks when she joined some friends to watch a video in the room of a senior. One by one the other students went away, leaving her alone with a student whose full name she didn't even know. "It ended up with his hands around my throat," she recalls. In a lawsuit she has filed against the college, she charges that he locked the door and raped her again and again for the next four hours. "I didn't want him to kill me. I just kept trying not to cry." Only afterward did he tell...
...includes his two wives and several shapely female "secretaries," all traveling aboard two customized 727 airliners he owns. But he's not likely to visit old haunts in Damascus anytime soon. When asked about that destination, an aide shook his head and ominously drew a finger, knifelike, across his throat...
...greater freedom of expression, but the Iraqi people expect only despotism. Asked about anti- Saddam demonstrations in March, a Baghdad taxi driver replies, "You cannot ask such questions in this country. If I talk to you, the police will come and . . ." The young man slices his finger across his throat...
...pain. His younger brother and sister gaze at him, then look quickly away, a fog of panic filling their eyes as they contemplate their mad brother, the gloom of the tent, their possessions reduced to a teapot, a blanket and a few ragged clothes. Omar, their father, clears his throat and volunteers, "The boy, he has been like that since the bombing. He is disturbed, I think...
...study someone at the beginning of a relatively silent phase of the HIV infection, they had to find people who did not yet realize they had contracted the virus. It turns out that at least a third of HIV-infected people develop a fever or a severe sore throat within a few weeks to months after first exposure. Such signs, which usually clear up on their own, can easily be misdiagnosed as a bad flu or mononucleosis. Researchers realized the tip-off would come when they tested the patients and found HIV instead of influenza viruses or other disease-causing...