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...near the beginning of an auction, to keep prices rolling, but as the sales continued, he started to win plots of land-12 parcels in all, more than 22,000 acres, at the cost of $1.79 million. By the end, DeChristopher was simply bidding nonstop, and BLM officials finally caught on to what he was doing and took him into custody. Though now in the hands of the feds, he remains cool. "I told them I was there to commit civil disobedience and that this was a fraudulent auction," he says. (See pictures of the world's most polluted places...
Word of that obligation does not seem to have reached Kiwanga. In one case last October, an elderly Spanish nun, Sister Marķa, was caught in the cross fire between rebels and the Congolese army and became trapped under a falling wall. Still conscious, Sister Marķa used her mobile phone to call Father George at a nearby Catholic mission. He contacted officials at MONUC and asked for an armored rescue but says they refused. A few hours later, the rebels carried Sister Marķa to the front line. From there, a group of nuns took her to the Rutshuru...
...army colonel, John Tshibangu, arrived and promised that looters would be caught. A pastor, Rahera Kambale, pulled me aside. "Even as he's talking, they're still looting and raping and killing," he said. "This is the second time this month." I asked about MONUC. "They passed by one day," said the pastor. "They didn't stop." He echoed Father George: "I don't see their point." A few miles to the north, we found a Mai Mai checkpoint, where fighters searched a truckload of army wives, confiscating tubs of baby formula, bottles of Golden cooking oil and packs...
...follow-up coverage to your profile of Timothy Geithner, you describe his problem as failing to pay part of his taxes in 2001-02 but neglect to mention 2003-04 [Jan. 26]. Yes, he paid them with penalties and interest but only after he was caught, first by the IRS and again by Obama's transition team. The election is over; TIME should get back to factual reporting. Rich Paulson, SOAP LAKE, WASH...
...under Medicaid was seized on late last week by House Republicans as one of their chief reasons for opposing the stimulus bill. Democrats, they charged, wanted to use taxpayer money that was supposed to create jobs to instead "fund the abortion industry" and pass out contraceptives. The Republicans were caught off guard when Obama called their bluff and asked congressional Democrats to remove the provision - and fell back to complaining about the bill's cost and the insufficient size of tax cuts. But then it was liberals' turn to be up in arms over Obama's "betrayal," with some bloggers...