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...move meant to ease the "mental anguish" of prison inmates and make it possible to put them to work, Kenya's president has commuted the sentences of the 4,000 people on death row to life imprisonment...
...armed robbery, murder and treason. But death row inmates find themselves relegated to criminal purgatory because no one has been hanged - the legally required method of capital punishment - since 1987. President Mwai Kibaki said that commuting all of the country's death sentences would help alleviate the "undue mental anguish and suffering, psychological trauma and anxiety" that comes with being consigned to death row for an "extended stay." (See pictures of violence in Kenya...
...Iran as seda va sima, has been mounting over the past two weeks. It reached a fever pitch this weekend, as state television ignored the killing of "Neda," an Iranian woman protester shot on a Tehran street who has rapidly emerged as an iconic symbol of the opposition's anguish over the unfolding crisis. "The whole world was mourning Neda as a martyr, the world was crying for her, but there was no word from [state media]," a resident of central Tehran wrote to me in an e-mail. "How shameful!" (Read a story about how one woman's death...
...bitter eight-year war, and more recently, since the U.S. toppling of Saddam Hussein, Iran has taken an active - and some would argue malign - interest in its neighbor to the west. But while Western leaders and pundits wring their hands over Iran's disputed election, there's been little anguish in Baghdad. (Read "Iran Group in Iraq Poses Thorny Issue...
...mitigate their anguish, Martell and longtime Marceau assistant Valérie Bochenek formed the association "A Museum for Bip" - a reference to the mime's famous sailor-suited character. Its initial aim was to raise $135,000 and buy as many of Marceau's most artistically significant relics as possible - including Bip's trademark costume (for which bids opened on Wednesday at a mere $1,350). Despite their collecting more than 3,000 signatures of support in less than two weeks, Martell acknowledges that they got significantly less money than hoped for. Still, during Tuesday's auctioning, Bochenek made...