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Ugandan police agree and are treating the deaths as murder. Late last week two mass graves in a compound belonging to the cult 31 miles from the church in Kanungu yielded at least 150 more bodies, including 60 children and mostly women who had been strangled and hacked to death. Officials were still trying to determine whether cult leader Joseph Kibwetere, 68, died in the blaze or escaped. The onetime devout Roman Catholic teacher helped create the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God sect 10 years ago, after claiming he had been told by the Virgin...
...younger Bush learn nothing on the playing fields of Andover and Yale? "What a great putt on nine" is what winners have said to losers for generations at the Cape Arundel Golf Club in Kennebunkport. Last June on Bush's maiden campaign swing, he stopped at the family compound on the Maine seacoast to celebrate Poppy's 75th birthday, a subtle reminder that he was better bred than the unworthy occupant of the White House. If some thought the young Bush had had it too easy, remained too much the carefree frat boy, they could still count on the fact...
...your best friend planned to join a cult and move to a compound in the desert, you'd try to talk him out of it. Right? You'd probably have no luck. Cult members lose their ability to think rationally--an impediment that usually recedes about the time disaster joins the ranks. Way too late. Make no mistake: brainwashed tech-stock lovers are in the same mess, only nobody is trying to talk sense into them. Friends, and Grandma too, have all set up quarters in the same compound...
...battle corruption is to consolidate power in Parks' office and increase the budget of Internal Affairs, the department's internal policing unit. But in the wake of protests following the acquittal of four New York City police officers in the Amadou Diallo case, police brutality is a hot issue. Compound that with the fact that we've heard the LAPD promise to improve its self-policing in the past, and it's hard to imagine the department being left to its own devices again...
Politics is a tough business, and when everyone is listening to what you say, you're bound to make more than one mistake during the course of the campaign. The Gore campaign shouldn't compound those mistakes by trying to solve them with tortured phrasing that reminds us of the worst of Clinton, not the best of the Clinton/Gore administration. I won't even address the linguistic tap-dance Bush has been performing for the last several months because it is so constant as to be almost mesmerizing...