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...anyone in France who even knows who kitsch artist Jeff Koons is - much less why he's sharing a tribute with Helen Keller, Hans Blix and Jacques Cousteau. And you don't have to be a rabid (Groucho) Marxist to turn down membership in a club that includes murderous Central African Republic "Emperor" Jean-Bédel Bokassa...
...watched friends, family and millions of his countrymen die as neighbor turned on neighbor. Seven years ago, he arrived in South Africa, the continent's richest country, to pursue his dream of becoming a doctor in Africa's best schools. Now, seeking refuge from murderous crowds in a central Johannesburg police station, he feels as vulnerable as he did back in Congo. "They're our own neighbors - we lived together, and I gave them food," he says. "Then I saw them coming to our house. I saw them killing people...
...them have shared Muyumba's plight in recent weeks. He was chased from his hut in Alexandra in the latest violence, only to be forced out of a second in Kya Sand; he finally found tenuous shelter with thousands of others at the Jeppestown police station compound in central Johannesburg. "If the government doesn't do better by its people," he says, "we're going to be in trouble all the time...
...current government could have continued to hold out against Hizballah and clung to office and symbolic support from the West. But in the absence of any real central authority, the country was already starting to unravel along sectarian lines. Lebanon's multi-religious character and political system - which divides power among the country's largest sects - is famously fragile. The sectarian feeling unleashed by clashes between Hizballah, a Shi'a Muslim party, and government supporters, who are mostly Sunni and Druze Muslims, threatened to push the country into another civil...
...serving as Prime Minister for the third time, Berlusconi was greeted by a mix of reactions, from over-the-top support to deep cynicism. Near the Prefect headquarters in central Naples, where the four-hour afternoon meeting was held, was a giant banner saying Berlusconi was worthy of sainthood. But there were also organized protests of at least 10 different groups, including one citizen association that carried bags of trash with Berlusconi's picture plastered...