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...murders in particular have galvanized the community. In late December, musician Dinerral Shavers of the Hot 8 Brass Band was shot and killed while riding in a car; police later arrested a 17-year-old who was said to have been involved in a feud with Shavers' stepson. And in the early morning hours of Jan. 4, an intruder shot and killed filmmaker and social activist Helen Hill at her home not far from the French Quarter; Hill's husband Paul Gailiunas, a physician who helped establish a clinic for indigent patients, was injured in the attack and was found...
...Family Feud...
...just the latest and most desperate example of baseball’s free market run amok. Teams are all too willing to turn out their pockets thanks to power-agents like Boras, whose whole job is to drive a wedge between competing teams and then exploit their blood feud. A plague on both their houses...
...OUSTED. Laisenia Qarase, 65, Fijian Prime Minister; in a coup-the island nation's fourth in 19 years-led by Fiji's top military leader, Commodore Frank Bainimarama; in the capital, Suva. The bloodless coup, prefaced by weeks of rumors and military movements, is widely attributed to a feud between Qarase and Bainimarama over amnesty for the leaders of a 2000 coup, which Bainimarama had helped quell. Bainimarama placed Qarase under house arrest, dissolved Parliament, imposed a state of emergency and installed Jona Senilagakali as interim Prime Minister. Senilagakali, a military doctor with no political experience, told reporters that democratic...
...wonder if Winston Churchill's famous quip about democracy -the worst form of government except all the all others - is a bit less applicable to the running of a worldwide religion. Critics say that by trying to placate all constituencies, Williams has actually deepened the fault lines in the feud that erupted after the American branch of the faith - the Episcopalians - approved the ordination of gay bishops and chose a woman as its primate. There have in fact been moments when the tall and bearded Williams has been dwarfed by others in his own church, including Nigerian Anglican Archbishop Peter...