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...Harvard reported no homicides, manslaughter or arson on campus. There were six drug law violations and two bias crimes, both of which involved a victim’s sexual orientation...
...bafflement. Many of them appear to have been set deliberately, but to prevent future disasters authorities may have to do more than just look for firebugs playing with matches on deserted roadsides. Fire experts suggest that as much as 80% of the fires start through negligence rather than deliberate arson, but the hunt is on for arsonists in France. A French judge last week launched legal action against Stéphane Jousse, 30, after he admitted to starting seven fires near Draguignan in July - though not the ones that raged last week - and two others last summer. Described...
...Karachi throughout the early 1990s. The Pathans and the Sindhis retaliated but the Mohajirs matched them murder for murder, operating torture cells. Today Karachi is in the grips of the Mohajir godfather, Altaf Hussain, a fugitive in Britain charged with more than 100 counts of murder, sabotage and arson, who continues to rule the city from afar...
...Pentagon contends that most of these conditions predate the war. But there has been a fearsome jump in crime. Carjackings, lootings, robberies, arson and rapes have become the order of the day--and night. Automatic gunfire provides an unsettling sound track for daily life. The threat of violence makes parents afraid to send their kids to school, merchants wary of opening their stores and law-abiding Iraqis nervous about going out after dark. The Americans have tried to blame pro-Saddam saboteurs for the collapse of order. Lieut. General David McKiernan, head of the U.S. land forces in Iraq, said...
...protests to his rule in a speech marking the nation's 23rd year of independence. The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said that with the world's attention fixed on Iraq and SARS, Mugabe had clamped down on protest using violent repression. Reports of rape, torture and arson continued to surface following the arrest and detention of hundreds of MDC supporters over the past few weeks. More Time for Anwar MALAYSIA An appeals court upheld the sodomy conviction of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, sending him back to the jail where he had just served four years...