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...combination of factors. The club had been shut down down since last year after an ugly incident in which a football recruit was hospitalized after a fight with club members. But the more important issue is that the D.U. served as a den of sexism, elitism and chronic drunkeness...
That the week before the election was considered "peaceful" showed just how chronic this ghastly civil war has become: army special forces stormed an apartment in Tizi-Ouzu, 50 miles east of the capital, killing seven guerrillas, including the regional leader of the Armed Islamic Group (G.I.A.). Two French nuns were gunned down, one fatally, as they left their home in an Algiers suburb to attend Mass, bringing the number of foreigners murdered in Algeria by Islamists to 94 in the past two years. A car bomb outside a voting station south of Algiers killed five people. Three activists from...
Serious difficulties such as domestic violence, alcoholism, drug abuse and chronic infidelity plagued these marriages. More than fifty percent of the interviewees reported a few violent incidents during their marriages which sometimes continue after the divorce. Most women find that divorce in itself is not the problem, but the economic struggles which follow...
...certainly premature to write his epitaph. He has survived many bouts of ill health in the past, weathering an apparent nervous breakdown, a kidney disorder and, of course, his chronic problem with alcohol. With each rebound, he has seemed to delight in showing off his vigorous constitution, shaming pundits who were on the verge of announcing his demise...
...part of the U.S. to form a separate Republic of African America. The arrangement would confirm a secession that has already occurred in millions of minds all over the country. The attitude is that it was a horrible marriage from the start and has long since dissolved in chronic dysfunction, occasional riot and permanent mutual contempt. Why keep the ugly, abusive charade going? (Was it some such domestic metaphor playing in the unconscious mind that made the Simpson case so fascinating...