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...Baltimore Sun reported, the violence that had brought the lives of Donell Rogers and Quinton Hogan to an end returned to disrupt their memorial. At least one gunman armed with a semiautomatic weapon cut down 12 people, including a pregnant 23-year-old woman and a 2-year-old. The rest of the night saw six more people shot in the neighborhood, two of whom died. A man has been charged in one of the shootings, but it is unclear if it was connected to the cookout. (Read "How to Turn Around a Gang Member...
...year conflict is evolving. In the 1990s and in the first half of this decade, campesinos were often driven off their land en masse by rebels or their foes, the paramilitaries. Following Mao's advice to separate the water from the fish, the warring factions depopulated the land to disrupt the enemy's civilian support network. According to Codhes, such scorched-earth tactics have uprooted more than 4.5 million people since 1985, leaving Colombia (pop. 45 million) with the world's second largest population of internally displaced persons (IDPs). Only Sudan, with nearly 5 million, has more. (The Bogot...
...think it's fair that pro athletes can get shipped around like commodities? Office workers don't have to worry about suddenly being traded to another branch or company in another city. It can disrupt lives, right? I don't mind. With the job we have, the things we get to do, the money we're paid, you should be able to deal with the things that come with it. At the end of the day, I knew I still had a guaranteed contract that's worth crazy money [$9.3 million for 2009-10] at a time when money...
...second largest ethnic group, rallying in the north behind Abdullah, the son of a Pashtun father and Tajik mother. Abdullah is also more closely identified with the Northern Alliance, which ousted the Taliban - a largely Pashtun movement - from power in late 2001. (Read about the Taliban threat to disrupt the election...
...Arghandab, a volatile district north of the city. But the Taliban has suffocated life there, he says, with no respect for his past sacrifice. "We fought to live in peace, and now they are making things impossible, fighting the police. Damn them." (Read about the Taliban threat to disrupt the election...