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...words of Augustin Ntirushwamaboko belie. The 38-year-old farmer stands ramrod straight as he describes dragging a Tutsi man from the bushes in Zivu in 1994 and bludgeoning him to death. "When I hit him with the club, he didn't die," Ntirushwamaboko explains. "I had an ax. I hit him with the blunt side on his head." Ntirushwamaboko is one of up to a million Hutu - one-eighth of this small central African country's population - who are expected to face trial for the 1994 genocide that wiped out an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, moderate Hutu and political...
...weeks whittling down a pool of 25 eager suitors, Jen turned down the last, bewildered contender. Art-gallery director Jerry Ferris, 29, was so smitten with her that he had penned the words to a love song that ABC played on the show right before Jen gave him the ax. Harsh...
Another classic moment that Carson's eulogizers trotted out last week came in 1965 when Ed Ames of Daniel Boone, demonstrating a tomahawk throw, landed his ax squarely in the crotch of a paper target. Carson's greatness was reflected not just in the zinger he came up with--"I didn't even know you were Jewish!"--but in what came before. Watch the playback: he lets the laughter crescendo--five seconds, 10. He knows he has the joke. He knows it will kill. But you cannot have it yet. For a moment, he is keeping it for himself, like...
...normally green lawn in front of the old mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, now littered with a thick debris of dead snakes, chickens and humans--at just one collection point in the city, authorities have gathered 3,500 corpses. On the Andaman coast in Thailand, soldiers are using an ax and a spade to dig out the body of a woman half-buried beneath a palm tree. Fifty miles south in Patong, a honky-tonk beach town on Phuket Island, 100 bodies are laid out in front of a morgue that has room to refrigerate only two. In Batticaloa...
...sickness or fevers. Ro'mam Luong, 55, was amazed at the color TV in the government office where the group stayed on their first nights back in Cambodia: "I have no idea what it is. It's very strange. But I like it. Now I want a hoe, an ax and a machete for farming." Reunited with relatives, the group has been given land by provincial authorities and building materials, tools and food from the U.N. High Commission for Refugees to start their new existences. "I lived in the jungle and did not hear anything from the outside world," said...