Word: fallen
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...with Africans. But the fragility of these ideas is still painfully evident even to Museveni. He stood at a hotel window in Kinshasa looking across the Congo river to Brazzaville, capital of the other country called the Congo. A prosperous, thriving nation just three months ago, that Congo has fallen back into mindless civil war, and as the latest cease-fire was broken, Museveni could see the bright red tracers of bullets arcing across the otherwise darkened city. "Clowns," he muttered. "Must Africa remain in a permanent state of transition...
This wouldn't happen if some cops didn't believe they had a mandate for such behavior. Even though the rate of serious crime in the U.S. has fallen to levels not seen since the early 1970s, public fear of crime has reached an apex. TV transmits vivid pictures of actual violence into the nation's living rooms on a daily basis in more and more graphic detail. Politicians respond to the mounting public fear with declarations of war on drugs and crime that resonate with voters, from presidential to local elections. They also play well to the police culture...
...Like many scandals, this case will likely turn on the cover-up. The charge of witness-tampering and altering documents over a trip to a Dallas Cowboys game courtesy of Tyson foods is, says Novak, "the only juicy part." Without convictions on those two, Smaltz will have fallen short. And remember, there's always the presidential pardon...
...religion--man's answer to his spiritual hunger. Nourish the soul, find truth, find the meaning, find God. All religions seek to lead people through these searches to the ultimate answer. Unfortunately, along the way many religions, including Mormonism, have fallen prey to the "God in a box" syndrome--explanations that reduce the infinite to what mortal minds can comprehend and, possibly, equal. They can call this religion, but spirituality or faith, never! NANCY SIGLER Laguna Niguel, Calif...
...stand trial, went into dignified exile in Chile, and died there in 1994. Spymaster Markus Wolf scored a similar coup, convincing a constitutional court to overturn a treason conviction and leave him free to pen a best-selling memoir. Until today's conviction, responsibility for the killings had fallen to border guards and military officials...