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Emory University student Abinta Kabir was killed yesterday during the ISIS restaurant siege in Dhaka. The terrorists stormed the restaurant screaming “Allahu Akbar.” ** Hostages who could cite the Koran were spared. ** ISIS barbarians posted photos of the victims online during the siege. Twenty hostages were killed during the attack. Yahoo reported: Emory University says in an email to employees that one of the Dhaka restaurant attack victims was Abinta Kabir, a student at the school’s campus in Oxford, Georgia. She was visiting family and friends in Bangladesh when she was taken hostage and killed. University president James Wagner...

Last week, a group of about 50 students at Emory University claimed that at an outbreak of pro-Donald Trump sidewalk chalk around campus was “triggering,” racist and damaging to their psychological well-being. Emory president James Wagner then legitimized the complaints, describing words such as “Vote Trump” and “Build the wall” — chalked on cement — as “perceived intimidation.” Over the weekend, students involved in Emory’s Young Americans for Liberty chapter responded to the wailing and gnashing of teeth by the $59,444-per-year private school’s social justice warriors with a new, bigger, better political message in support of Trump, reports Inside Higher...

As he lay dying, ambulances went elsewhere By John Semien semien@gomemphis.com July 17, 2003 As ambulance drivers bounced from one wrong destination to another, James Hill Wagner lay on a pool hall floor, friends pleading with him to stay alive. The 68-year-old was competing in a pool tournament when he collapsed over a pool table shortly after 9 p.m. July 9. It took 30 minutes from the first 911 call for an ambulance to reach Wagner at The Billiard Club, 2686 Kirby-Whitten - after units were mistakenly sent to at least three other locations. Friends and club employees spent those...