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Americans reach for the death penalty with every rise in high-profile, senselessly brutal crimes. Several have made headlines in the country's larger cities recently. The granddaughter of the Los Angeles police chief was killed outside a Popeye's Chicken & Biscuits, apparently caught in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong companion. In a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pa., five people died after an immigration lawyer went on a 20-mile shooting rampage. And in New York City, seven people were bound, gagged and shot during a robbery at a Wendy's restaurant, prompting Republican Senate candidate...
...Cannes still has its beguilements and ironies. Visitors can choose between seeing a brutal drama about the Egypt-Israel Yom Kippur War and attending an AMFAR benefit dinner featuring top models in Victoria's Secret skivvies--and some choose Kippur...
...Vikings came to America before Columbus, but they did not enslave the Indians or unleash such diseases as smallpox on the Native Americans or sell their lands. No matter how brutal the Vikings were, they did not come close to matching the exploits of those who came from England and Spain 500 years later. The Europeans took land away from the natives, while the Vikings' purpose was to trade with them. JASON MIRDANIALI Tampa...
...country's rich diamond mines. In return, the rebels were supposed to disarm and behave. Instead, the amnesty emboldened them; they sold smuggled diamonds for fresh weapons; they got ready to grab power. The slapdash pact assumed Sankoh actually wanted peace, trusting in the good faith of a brutal tyrant...
...American, and also to send Jesse Jackson back to the region to talk to anyone who'll listen. But it's patently clear that the peace that Western leaders had hoped would solve the problem cannot be saved. Once Freetown is secured, the international community will face some brutal choices: Either the West will have to risk some of its own resources in a war to destroy Sankoh's forces and bring him to justice, or it will have to arm and pay the Nigerians - or some other group of guns for hire - to do the job. Because as long...