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...couples are getting married in a chapel in back of Screams, Colone says, because they reasoned that things can only get better if they get married in Hell on the "Day of the Devil." "People at church frowned at me when I mentioned the celebrations this week," says Chad Wines, who works at Screams. "They said 666 was the mark of the beast. But I'm just here to work...
...time someone has written new songs, which kind of defeats the purpose. The show winks at the audience so relentlessly, with references to ?80s icons from Flashdance to Mr. T, that eventually you just tune out. Some good tunes would have helped, but the score (by Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin) is forgettable, like most of this overblown show...
...Sudanese rebel groups have begun fighting each other. Sudanese government-backed forces have made raids into neighboring Chad, reaching the outskirts of the capital last month and threatening to topple Chad's government. Chad, in turn, has provided a base for anti-Khartoum forces. The splintering has made peace negotiations more complicated - and even more urgent...
...pushing so hard to to make warring factions strike a peace deal? Perhaps because of the very real possibility that unless a deal is agreed to soon - in the next few days - the violence in Darfur will grow into a full-blown regional conflict, sucking in countries such as Chad and the Central African Republic. And if that were to happen, Western powers and the United Nations know pressure for international intervention will only grow...
Instead the conflict has become a series of bloody, tribal-based turf wars that have spilled across the border into Chad. "There's terrible fragmentation in the conflict," says Matt Bryden of the International Crisis Group. "Whether you agree that genocide has happened or not up to now, the risk of it evolving in that direction is increasing dramatically...