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Austrian Kidnap Victim Revisits Her Cellar Prison.. true forgiveness

By Tristana Moore / Berlin Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010   Seeing the cramped, windowless basement where Natascha Kampusch was locked up for 8½ years, it's almost impossible to believe that anyone could have survived the ordeal. Yet the Austrian kidnapping victim not only made it out of the dungeon where an engineer named Wolfgang Priklopil had imprisoned her as a child but also emerged a remarkably confident and self-assured young woman.    In a powerful new documentary titled Natascha Kampusch: 3,096 Days' Imprisonment , which was broadcast on the German public television channel ARD on Monday night, Kampusch allowed cameras into the cellar where she had been locked up in the Vienna suburbs for the first time and revealed new harrowing details of her brutal captivity, which ended with her lucky escape in August 2006. "I have a stamp on my forehead which says victim of violence," Kampusch tells the TV crew who filmed the house that she now owns. "I will be ...

八十後冀打破懨悶壟斷商場

(明報 )2010 年1月9日 星期六 15:05 八十後青年陳景輝表示,希望他們這一代人,可令下一代人,不會像「八十後」般天天重覆生活於懨悶壟斷商場中。陳景輝今早在港台「香港家書」中,致信財政司長曾俊華,以下為全文: 曾司長: 近期很多人 談論「八十後」,包括你在內的政府官員,時事評論員,甚至社會學家都在討論此事。一次,我讀報時翻到娛樂版,赫然發現連新晉明星的名字後 面都添上了一個新的形容詞,是為「八十後」。此類說法可能出於善意,但我認為部分郤有點捉錯用神,譬如,曾司長你在個人網誌中提到,相比上一代,我們「八 十後」這一代不只關注置業問題,反而關注物業有甚麼設施,泳池有多大,私隱度是否足夠等。其實我們一群「八十後」讀過文章後,簡直「 O 咗嘴」,覺得當中有 些事被完全搞錯了。因為我們所關注的不只是自己的私人會所或物業會所泳池的大小等,而是 一座城市的命運 [I know how stupid our government is, but if you reli care abt the future of HK..then pls re-think…what is the best for HK people..of coz I am not talking abt the super rich greedy guys…I am saying the general public…can u imagine the opportunity the railways that can bring to us???? pls open your eyes and see how aggressive every cites in China right now…they, except Hong Kong, all have an apparent plan on their cities development. i know you may think that I am just money focus and 2 opportunist…but shall we all accept the truth that we will lose our position one day and  we will no...