Sunday,  May 13, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 304 • 17 of 27 •  Other Editions

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as Boston University students, faculty and officials gathered in a campus plaza to mourn three classmates studying abroad who died in a minivan crash in New Zealand.
• Pinheiro told the few hundred who gathered at BU's Marsh Plaza on Saturday night that her boyfriend, Austin Brashears, was among those who died earlier in the day, half a world away. She cried as she recalled how friendly he was and how much she loved him.
• She said he recently had left her a voicemail saying he missed her, and she has been playing it repeatedly.
• "I listened to it four times, just to hear your voice," she told the crowd as she tried to fight back tears.

• Brashears was from Huntington Beach, Calif. The university says the other students killed were Daniela Lekhno, of Manalapan, N.J., and Roch Jauberty, whose parents live in Paris.
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