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Sudan is really two countries: the north is predominantly Muslim, and the south is inhabited mostly by tribal peoples like the Dinka, of whom Deng is one. War broke out between north and south when Deng was about 6. His village was destroyed by horsemen, and many of his friends and relatives were killed or enslaved. He escaped. Along with many other boys--the so-called Lost Boys of Sudan--Deng walked hundreds of miles overland to a refugee camp in Ethiopia...
...Afghanistan have been honing their p.r. skills, launching a website and handing out spokesmen's phone numbers to reporters, in a bid to convince Afghans of the moral degeneracy of the international forces in their country. Most of their reports have been fabricated. But last week, true stories broke to rival their worst propaganda. On Oct. 25, the German daily Bild published German soldiers' snapshots depicting up to six of them posing with human bones, possibly those of Afghan war victims. In one photo, taken near Kabul in 2003, a grinning soldier is holding a skull next to his bared...
Wetterling, whose son was abducted in 1989, won sympathy when the House page scandal broke. Bachmann has attacked her as a tax-and-spend liberal...
...Staff Karl Rove’s PR game. Rich goes on to call the past five years, “an embarrassing era for the American news media.” He does, however, praise several journalists, including The New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh, who first broke the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, for continuing journalistic integrity in a period when it was sorely lacking...
...hard-fought battle between the Harvard football team and Princeton last Saturday, free safety Danny Tanner broke up a pass, making it fourth-and-four for the Tigers. With the Crimson up 28-24, a stop would have sealed the deal...