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...along the border with India - many reportedly abandoning their positions near the Afghan border - as the drumbeat of potential war between the two nuclear-armed South Asian countries grew louder. And as soldiers and the political faithful took their positions, mourning, anxiety and a measure of defiance merged. For chaotic, crisis-racked Pakistan, it was a time to mourn and, perhaps, almost a time to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Year After Bhutto: Tears and Troop Movements | 12/27/2008 | See Source »

...military vehicles rolled through the capital of your country during the chaotic days following the president's death, and soldiers brandished weapons and declared themselves the new government, you might assume there would be widespread panic. But if you live in the mineral-rich West African nation of Guinea, that assumption would be wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Guinea's People Welcomed the Coup | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

...vindicated; as part of a plea bargain, one of the guards has confessed that the suspicious sedan and “small arms fire” conjured in the gunners’ debriefings presented nothing of a threat to the convoy. This was less a firefight than a chaotic massacre of civilians, featuring bursts of turret fire and the senseless use of grenade launchers...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: Hired Guns | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...final notes achieved a profound serenity, closing a dynamic, sometimes chaotic, but characteristically enjoyable HRO concert...

Author: By Matthew H. Coogan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HRO Evokes Rich Moods | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...first shopping day of the holiday season. But when shoppers forced their way through the doors at 5:00 a.m., Damour was thrown back onto the linoleum tiles and trampled by customers eager to snatch the best bargains they could find. He suffered fatal injuries crushed beneath a chaotic stampede of more than 2,000 fanatical buyers...

Author: By Sabrina G. Lee | Title: The Casualties of Consumerism | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

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