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...India A MONUMENTAL EFFORT Voting in the world's largest democracy started on April 16, despite violent Maoist attacks intended to disrupt the election that left at least 17 dead. Staggered balloting for the nation's 543 parliamentary seats continues until May 13; counting will begin on May 16. Neither of India's two major parties is expected to win enough seats to declare an overall victory, so a new coalition government--including some of the country's smaller parties--could be formed after the election...
When the CIA was asked to resume hostile interrogations after Sept. 11, some agency leaders were dead set against it, arguing that the military was better equipped for the task. But Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld insisted the job belonged to the CIA. We now know that Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in one month. His interrogator, a former CIA colleague of mine, admits he had almost no training in the technique and knew nothing about how the cumulative effect of waterboarding might affect the quality of the information he was trying to extract...
...acting chief financial officer of mortgage giant Freddie Mac, David Kellermann, 41, struggled with his company's being placed under conservatorship because of a $50 billion loss in 2008. Kellermann was found dead April 22, an apparent suicide...
...neighbors were awakened at night or horrified in broad daylight by assault-rifle fire and the screaming of tires as cars raced away after kidnappings. One afternoon, local children watched as a pickup rammed down the door of a house, sparking a gun battle that left four people dead in the street. Out at Rojas' ranch, the situation was worse. The drug gangs, whose trafficking route for marijuana, cocaine and heroin passes near a cluster of haciendas that includes Rojas', demanded protection money from the ranchers. When they balked, the gangs burned down the ranch houses, then abducted and executed...
...April 19 at 78, was convinced that 20th century life was a frail shell of pretense over strong, dark, violent impulses. His prose had a lucid, often clinical air, but his characters were weird iconic figures lost in their obsessions over sex, drugs, media, massive disasters, car crashes, dead pop stars, hydrogen bombs and fatal medical experiments...