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...population of the Netherlands tuned in to watch a bizarre twist in the unsolved case of Natalee Holloway, an 18-year-old American who went missing in May 2005 after a night out on the Caribbean island of Aruba. Acting as the prosecution: Peter de Vries, a Dutch crime journalist, who presented his eagerly awaited take on the case on a Dutch commercial television station. The advocate for the defense: a rival channel, which aired an interview with one of the prime suspects in the case. Left in the dust as hapless bystanders were the official prosecutors in Aruba...
...That Jhuma is blamed for the crime enacted on her is no surprise. Nor should it shock that, in the patriarchal world Chettri describes, Jhuma blames herself. "Her heart was heavy, and it burned with remorse," writes Chettri. Soon after she discovers that she's pregnant and that the soldier has fled, Jhuma prepares to kill herself. What might jolt a contemporary reader, though, is her feudal salvation: just as she's about to jump off a cliff, Jhuma is saved by a fat old goatherd who has secretly loved her and promises to care for her forever. She relents...
...King's army, had been safe during all of the years of the civil war - the usually teeming streets grow deserted. "The police have no motivation at all right now," complains Kanak Dixit, editor of Himal magazine and an outspoken advocate of democracy. "There is an alarming surge in crime...
...that the issues of the past are not necessarily the issues most compelling for today's students. Pollster Frank Luntz gathered a focus group of New Hampshire students on the eve of the primary there, and the hour-long conversation barely touched on the hot buttons of yore: abortion, crime and affirmative action. Their world, after all, encompasses RU 486, lower murder rates and Oprah. What concerns many of them is the nature of politics: the perceived gridlock of parties, conniving of special interests and shallow biases of the media. When Obama talks broadly about changing those dynamics, what strikes...
...timetable was clearly shaped by the fact that South Africa hosts soccer's World Cup, in 2010. Organizers expect the tournament to attract more than 300,000 visitors. But the South African Tourism Services Association said hopes of a tourist influx, already jeopardized by South Africa's raging violent crime, were now fading. "Will people come to South Africa to see them if they know they will be going back to hotels and guest houses with no power?" asked Michael Tatalias of the tourism association. "That means no hot meals, no clean laundry, no lights." (The football stadiums, however, will...