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“Within moments of arriving, we were beckoned out by some soldiers. We thought we were under arrest. It was a confused picture. Then a firefight ensued. So, we took cover in a building, and I discovered that close to where we had taken cover, there was a blanket on the ground.
I pulled the blanket off. And it revealed a man way past fighting age, I would say at least 75, 80 years old, who had been shot in the head, gunshot wound to the head, which — I’m not a pathologist, but it looked like the reason of death for him.
I reached for a blanket, giving him whatever dignity I could in that situation, and went into the next room essentially to escape the gunfire. And there, there was the body of — another blanket was laid out on the floor. Under that, I found the body of a little girl probably 5 or 6 years old, no more than that. And she had a gunshot wound in her chest.
This is only a small part of what has happened in Houla. And these bodies will not yet have been discovered by the United Nations.”
Professor James Liebman, who spent four-and-a-half years with his students at Columbia Law School reassembling the story of Carlos DeLuna, who was executed for a murder he swore he didn’t commit.
With this week’s presidential election representing the end of the transition from a military to civilian government, many Egyptians will be watching not only the results but for a clean process as well.
Here, an Egyptian woman dips her finger in ink after voting in Cairo. Thirteen candidates are running in the first round of voting on Wednesday and Thursday.
“For the presidency, people are taking pride in the fact that they’re choosing a leader for the nation. And a lot of people have said that ‘this isn’t about me, this is about the entire country and how we’re perceived abroad,’” said Erin Cunningham of the GlobalPost.
(Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images)
“Presidential Campaign Posters” is a visual anthology of election season artwork — images that capture the public sentiment, issues and prevailing design trends of a given campaign era.
More posters from the Library of Congress’ book here.
On April 12, 2011, a 59-year-old woman with a sensor implanted in her brain picked up her cinnamon latte with a robotic arm, brought it to her lips and took a sip through a straw, using only her thoughts.
It was the first movement Cathy Hutchinson had made in 15 years, after a severe brain stem stroke caused complete paralysis from her neck down.
The minimum wage is now about more than 40 percent below the federal poverty line.
via Paul Solman and Oregon State’s “Minimum Wage History”.
(PHOTO: A waitress carries a pizza to customers at Gino’s East restaurant in Chicago. Wait staff in Illinois earn $2.13 an hour, before tips. Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images.)
