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...breast. Djoli does not know how old she is; she looks about 17. When her husband heard her distraught tale, she says, he said: "What can we do? He is a soldier, and I am a civilian." Chilling as it is, Djoli's story is a small detail in the epic misery unfolding in Katanga, a province of the D.R.C. that's approximately the size of France and has a population, mostly poor, of 4.1 million. According to U.N. humanitarian officials, some 164,000 people have fled their Katanga homes since late last year, most of them victims...
...when he was arrested for flashing his pot of gold in public. Benjamin E. Huston was arrested last Friday at 5:20 p.m. for exposing his genitals to oncoming traffic, according to Boston Police Department (BPD). “There was an officer performing a traffic detail on Cambridge Street,” BPD officer Michael P. McCarthy said. “Fifteen individuals exited the Sports Depot Bar and crossed the street, and one of the individuals remained on the street pointing and waving at cars, trying to get their attention.” Huston was impeding traffic, McCarthy...
...Serbia was close to arresting Mladic as recently as January, says this official. Back then, police picked up retired Colonel Jovo Djogo, the former chief of Mladic's security detail, who remains in custody. The senior official says that defense minister Zoran Stankovic told Del Ponte to expect Mladic within eight weeks. "We were sure that [Djogo], who was in charge of Mladic for so many years, knows where the general is. But he is not talking." The chances of Mladic being brought in by the end of March, says the official, are now minimal. That would set back Serbia...
...close-ups too. Says Richard Hansen, a Maya scholar at Idaho State University, head of the Mirador Basin Project and a consultant for Apocalypto: "This is by far the best treatment--the first treatment really--of the Maya any film has ever done. I'm amazed at the detail Mel's shooting...
...have failed to keep pace with production. But that too may change. According to Eric Kan, whose Hong Kong-- based Oasis Global Sourcing designs and procures luxury housewares on the mainland, "Chinese factories have improved dramatically in the past three to five years in terms of their attention to detail." Kan outfitted the Sands Casino in Macau, and is at work furnishing a Manhattan clubhouse for the Ciprianis, the Venetian family that owns namesake hotels and restaurants around the world. Factories in China are capable of producing furniture for those kinds of venues, he says, but they need supervision. "Today...