The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Tehran, Iran - The leader of Iran's largest pro-reform party said Monday it will boycott Feb. 20 parliamentary elections, saying they would not be free and fair. Mohammad Reza Khatami, leader of the Islamic Iran Participation Front and brother of Iran's president, said the party would not field any candidates because thousands of liberal candidates have been disqualified from the polls by hard-line clerics. London - The British Broadcasting Corp. aired a TV documentary in which a man claiming to be a former North Korean agent described seeing prisoners being experimented on with lethal gas in the communist state. Between 150,000 and 200,000 political prisoners are confined to camps in North Korea, subjected to starvation diets, inhumane conditions and torture, according to a report in 2003 by a human rights group that collected satellite photographs and accounts from former prisoners. Denver - A woman was shaken but unhurt after a wild, 75-mile ride at speeds over 160 kmh that began when her brakes failed and her car accelerated out of control. Police finally stopped the car on Interstate 70 in west Denver by getting a cruiser in front of it, slowing gently till their bumpers touched, then bringing both vehicles to a stop. "It had a mind of its own," 20-year-old Angel Eck said Sunday.
