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...capital murder, the drowning of her four sons and baby daughter. At issue in the trial is her mental state: her motives and her will. Her attorneys will argue that the killings were brought on by psychotic delusions, exacerbated by repeated episodes of postpartum depression. Prosecutors dispute the extent of her psychosis and plan to seek the death penalty if she is convicted, contending she knew right from wrong and that the massacre of five children was an intentional attempt to escape a life she could no longer live--and a husband she had grown to resent. While Andrea...
...Getting to Bint Jbeil is too dangerous for reporters at this point, and it's impossible to verify the extent of the damage, but several residents of Bint Jbeil told similar stories...
...jungle, there in the stink that hung over the beaches rising from the bodies of the dead, there in the half-light of too many dusks and dawns laced together with the crisscrossed patterns of bullets, I had gotten a taste of death and found it palatable to the extent that I could never again eat the fruits of a normal civilization.... Maybe it did happen to me over there.... Maybe I was twisted and rotten inside. Maybe I would be washed down the sewer with the rest of the rottenness sometime...
...What happens in the Aug. 8 runoff hinges on the extent to which each camp can reverse that apathy and energize its voter base. While McKinney is an adept grassroots organizer, analysts say, her vulnerability may also motivate her detractors...
...decade ago, when it established Mobinil in Egypt, Orascom, which trades on the Cairo-Alexandria stock exchange but is controlled by Sawiris' Rome-based parent company, Weather Investments, became a major presence throughout the Middle East. Sawiris also moved into Pakistan and Bangladesh before he revealed the full extent of his global ambition last year with a risky, leveraged $15 billion takeover of Wind, an Italian cell-phone network--Europe's largest private-equity buyout and the biggest investment ever made on the Continent by an emerging-market dealmaker. "Globalization," he says, cocking an eyebrow to emphasize the point...