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...guilty verdict. The charges this time were battery and auto burglary. Simpson's neighbor Jeffrey Pattinson alleged that the former NFL star ran a stop sign, nearly causing an accident, went verbally ballistic on him when Pattinson honked his horn and finally yanked his glasses off. Simpson said Pattinson drove up behind him, sat on his horn and "went off" when approached. Wound alleged by plaintiff? A scratched temple. Such carnage! The best evidence was Simpson's fingerprint on the glasses, and the only witnesses were Simpson's kids, who were not called to the stand. Simpson said that when...
...woven knee-length gown with Nike sneakers and wraparound shades, Tempa was the picture of Bhutanese cool. "I prefer a T shirt and jeans," he said as he met us at Paro airport. "But the King says we have to wear traditional dress until 8 o'clock." As we drove to the capital Thimphu, it became clearer from his conversation?the latest Hollywood releases, Prince Charles, Britney?that a quarter century after opening its borders to the outside world, Bhutan is losing some of its splendid isolation. But while satellite TV may be superseding story-telling, and Internet chat rooms...
...makes up the Alliance controlled most of Afghanistan; they spent much of that time and most of the country's resources in internecine fighting. They turned Kabul's streets into a war zone, battling each other with tanks, artillery and air strikes that killed an estimated 10,000 civilians, drove hundreds of thousands from their homes and flattened wide swathes of the city. For Kabulis, the Taliban and the Alliance are both bad news. "Orderly oppression or chaotic violence: it's a tough choice," says Barnett Rubin, Afghanistan expert at New York University's Center for International Cooperation...
...NIGERIA Calm after Riots Business resumed in the city of Kano after community leaders agreed to end violence between Christian and Muslim gangs. Police said 32 people died in recent clashes that drove thousands of people from their homes. Red Cross estimates put the toll far higher. President Olusegun Obasanjo toured the northern city after the riots, which began as anti-American protests...
...peaceful non-Muslim communities around him. So impressed, for example, were the Jews of Medina with the fairness of the Prophet that they often asked him to resolve their disputes according to Jewish law. The tolerance inherent in Islam lived on long after the Prophet. When the Spanish Inquisition drove the Jews (and Muslims) out of Spain, they found refuge in the Ottoman Empire, where many served in high official positions...