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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...These institutional attempts at deflection have been drowned out of late, as the facts of the incident float to the surface and the shadow of guilt extends over the men in question in anticipation of their upcoming trial. The outraged families of the dead and injured that day may, it would appear, be vindicated; as part of a plea bargain, one of the guards has confessed that the suspicious sedan and “small arms fire” conjured in the gunners’ debriefings presented nothing of a threat to the convoy. This was less a firefight than...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: Hired Guns | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...Djinns.” In 1984, when Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards after ordering a raid on the religion’s holiest shrine to evict the militants holing up there, the citizens of Delhi formed mobs and the violence ended with several thousand Sikhs dead...

Author: By Russel F. Rennie | Title: A Dangerous Oversimplification | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...Anatoly’s wife Svetlana (Victoria J. Benjamin ’12) decides not to wait idly in Russia while her husband embarks on an affair and instead pays a visit to the couple. Florence’s missing father vacillates between supposedly being alive and being presumed dead faster than you can say, “World Communist Conspiracy.” At one point, it is even implied that he may actually work...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Chess' Just Isn't Fun Anymore | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...clashes rarely grow as big as those that have wracked Greece for the past two days. They began when police shot dead a 15-year-old boy in Exarchia on the night of Saturday Dec. 6. That killing sparked riots that spread to at least a dozen towns and cities across the country and have so far left 67 people injured, including 37 police officers. Protesters have destroyed at least 17 banks and set fire to dozens of shops and cars. It is the worst political violence in Greece in 17 years. (See pictures of the riots in Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Greece Is Wracked By Riots | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...October posted a message on Facebook that he was "battling an infection this Halloween. Boo (hoo)." On Nov. 6 the Locus.com SF site, the British Fantasy Society and Wikipedia all announced Ackerman's death - then retracted it. Not so much undead as not-yet-dead, Ackerman stayed with us for another four weeks. Through this extended expiration, emails flooded into the Acker-mini-mansion - love notes from fans like him, recognizing their model and idol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sci-Fi's No. 1 Fanboy, Forrest J Ackerman, Dies at 92 | 12/6/2008 | See Source »

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