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Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor was sent into exile nearly two years ago after eight years of leading a brutal insurgency and another six years of bloody rule - but he has apparently rejected the idea of a quiet retirement. Officials at the U.N.-backed Sierra Leone war-crimes tribunal told the Security Council in New York City last week that Taylor is now working closely with representatives of al-Qaeda to try to destabilize the region. "Al-Qaeda has been in West Africa. It continues to be in West Africa, and Charles Taylor has been harboring members of al-Qaeda...
...competition of a three-legged race could be brutal--and having your bunk short-sheeted humiliating--but most adults remember sleepaway camp as a relatively carefree experience, a respite from school and siblings and a departure from the pressures of normal life. Kids who went to private overnight camps spent weeks in bucolic settings, discovering activities they enjoyed and gamely participating in those they didn't. There were bug bites and bad food, but the day's biggest challenge often centered on rowing a canoe to the other side of the lake or roasting a marshmallow without burning...
...Genghis Khan wasn't really a bad guy. He just had bad press." ELBEGDORJ TSAHKIA, Mongolian Prime Minister, announcing an official campaign to refurbish Khan's current image as a brutal tyrant...
...menace. In Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea, veteran journalist Jasper Becker dutifully recounts the strange tales of Kim's extravagance. But the author is less concerned with the Dear Leader's personality quirks than with the murder and misery under Kim's brutal rule. To Becker, Kim Jong Il is not a cartoonish Dr. Evil?he's just evil...
...extraordinary move, Bush, on a tour of Europe to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of the World War II on the continent, made little mention of the 1945 defeat of the Nazi regime. He focused instead on the brutal occupation of Eastern Europe by Soviet troops after the war’s conclusion. The president’s comments came as Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, wrote in a French newspaper that his government would not give in to demands from Baltic countries for an apology for Soviet domination during the Cold...