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...minutes later, John McCarley, a weather-beaten cattleman with a deep drawl and a faded Yankees cap, echoed that analysis. "We're in an era where we need leadership," he said. "There will be social issues where we disagree, but ... we won't have a litmus test. He transcends that...
...Uganda's Mount Elgon National Park to soak up the carbon emissions of its rich Western patrons. Small problem: expanding the park encroaches on land traditionally used by local farmers. As a result, reports the New York Times, "villagers living along the boundary of the park have been beaten and shot at, and their livestock has been confiscated by armed park rangers." All this so that swimming pools can be heated and Maseratis driven with a clear conscience in the fattest parts of the world...
HARARE, ZIMBABWE Opposition leader beaten by police...
...makes it really hard to think about another country. I've been a couple of times, but you know it costs a lot of money to go to Africa. It just shows you how bad slavery was, even if you take out the fact that my people were beaten, raped, and all our religion and culture was stripped from us. Just the boat trip alone is one of the worst things that have ever been done to human beings...
...says the confessions were extracted under torture. Xu says this case is one of the most glaring examples of injustice in China, with numerous flaws in the prosecution (the only two pieces of evidence were mysteriously lost) and eyewitness accounts corroborating the men's allegations that their confessions were beaten out of them. The thinness of the case has been acknowledged several times by higher courts, including the Supreme Court in Beijing, which ordered the court in Chengde to address numerous inconsistencies. And yet all four men are still in prison, two of them still facing suspended death sentences...