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Their name had biblical vibes - Jesus' mother and his two chief disciples - and there was an apostolic sweetness to this trio, singing of brother- and sisterhood, of lemon trees and magic dragons. In the folk boom of the 1960s, no group had more success than Peter, Paul and Mary, in part because of their dramatic look: two serious gents in jackets and matching goatees and, between them, a strong-featured young woman with long blond hair in bangs and a supple, powerful voice. That was Mary Travers, who died Sept. 16 at 72 in Danbury, Conn., after a long bout...
...symbolism was impossible to ignore. Last Tuesday, Sept. 8, the chief of the Kenyan police - tainted by accusations that since he took charge, around the time of Kenya's presidential election in 2007, his men had waged a campaign of illegal killings - was fired and put in charge of the postal service. His deputy, meanwhile, was quite literally put out to pasture, with a new job at the Ministry of Livestock...
...unrepentant as he said goodbye to the force, noting that crime dropped drastically across Kenya during his time as chief of police. While that may be true, it is still generally seen as unsafe to go out after dark, and carjackings and break-ins are common. "Unfortunately, during my tenure, vilification of police became a national pastime," he said at a ceremony marking his departure. "Police work is not a public-relations exercise. You will make many happy and unhappy, but I take pride in what I have done...
...dolphins in 2006 and 10,218 in 2007. But even those figures are well below the prefecture's legal limits, and Taiji fishermen also hunted about half their limit in 2006 and 2007, averaging about 1,430 dolphins a year. In response to The Cove, town-council chief Katsutoshi Mihara told the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, "I don't understand their way of pushing their own values...
...tarnish their faith in Hizballah. After all, it was Hizballah, not the Lebanese government, that freed southern Lebanon from Israeli occupation in 2000, and it was Hizballah that turned back Israeli tanks in 2006. But on the back of several recent setbacks - the assassination of its operations chief last year, the electoral loss at the polls in June this year, the discovery this spring that an Israeli spy ring in Lebanon had bugged Hizballah's vehicles - Hizballah has lost some of its aura of invincibility, and its supporters no longer seem so ready to hit the front lines...