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...whose home in the town of Petit-Bourg was looted in April. "They left me with two empty hands." One farmer describes the destruction wrought by the army in the village of Petite-Riviere on April 25: "They burned down houses with everything in them. They cut down the banana trees, fruit trees, coconut trees. They shot cows, goats, pigs, cattle. They didn't leave anything," he says, tears in his eyes. "If only you could see the things they did, you wouldn't believe...
Even Charles' foes acknowledge that he is not a villain, but he seems to have a self-destructive streak. Some of it is just banana-peel comedy. The day of the broadcast he plowed the plane he was piloting off the runway: he misjudged his landing approach. More serious is his capacity for ill-advised self-revelation, which raises the question of whether he is fit to rule. When he claimed he was faithful to Princess Diana until the marriage was "irretrievably broken," he may have opened himself to the charge of lying. The next day Andrew Morton, the author...
...driven not by the haut monde boutiques on Tverskaya but by the corrugated larki, or street stalls, which have sprung up across Moscow (and which the city government moved in to control earlier this year). These sidewalk clearinghouses offer a bizarre inventory of items, from Pierre Cardin cigarettes to banana-flavored liqueurs, exotic massage oils, cut-rate lingerie, canned ears of baby corn and pirated videos of Western B-movies...
...gardens of the presidential palace in Kigali, a chunk of fuselage lies in an ornamental pool. Passenger seats litter the once manicured lawn. A tail wing juts through banana leaves. This is ground zero of Rwanda's carnage, where the bloodletting that has taken more than 200,000 lives had its catalyst. On a quiet evening two months ago, a French-made Mystere-Falcon carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and the President of Burundi from peace talks in Tanzania was hit by rocket fire and slammed into the earth just outside the compound, killing all 10 on board...
...anything where they have genuinely developed a policy, as opposed to a set of changing positions." Paul Goble, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, phrases the same criticism as a blunt question: "If we're the last remaining superpower, why do we act like a banana republic...