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...there's plenty more blame to go around. At a memorial march on Oct. 30, Andrea Azkune, one of Ceberio's friends, said: "When we look at the wall, we will say, 'A friend, a child, a 14-year-old child jumped from up there.' But he didn't commit suicide. He was suicided. We all suicided...
Recruiters have been given new sweeteners to dangle. The week before Christmas, the Guard and Army Reserve announced that the signing bonus for soldiers willing to commit to six years of service would be increased to $15,000--from $5,000 for the Guard and $8,000 for the Reserve. And although the active-duty Army has been meeting its recruitment goals, planners are taking precautions to keep the numbers healthy. The Army has added 375 soldiers to the ranks of its 5,654 recruiters. Active-duty G.I.s can now earn as much as $70,000 for college, up from...
...Drunken Horses. Ghobadi will produce and write the film, his prolific pace growing out of a belief that film can change the world - even if it kills him. "In the last five years, the hardships I have witnessed have pushed me on more than three occasions to try to commit suicide," he says. "But on the other hand, I have no other option than to continue doing this. Maybe one day a result will come out. We have to have hope...
...individuals across the globe continue to commit huge sums to relief organizations working in southern Asia, some charities have said they have more money for the effort than they...
...described the situation as “Hutus killing Tutsis and Tutsis killing Hutus.” Dallaire calls this “the myth of the double genocide.” Indeed, the ethnic Tutsi rebels who liberated Kigali at the end of the civil war certainly did commit reprehensible atrocities. But Rwanda—like Darfur—was a one-sided slaughter...