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...Keitetsi refused to sleep with a general. After he accused her of stealing arms and threatened her with sexual abuse and torture, she tried unsuccessfully to flee through Kenya. She instead fled across the continent to South Africa, where she was abducted by the Ugandan secret service, beaten and tortured...
...fire. When 150,000 Jews were forced to leave Iraq, the Iraqi government seized their bank accounts, and allowed each of them to take only one suitcase. In 1948 there were 80,000 Jews in Egypt whereas today fewer than 50 remain. Altogether, 900,000 Jews were forced to flee their homes in the Arab world. Arab states destroyed ancient Jewish communities that had existed for 2,700 years and created a refugee population of almost one million people...
...officially O.K. to bring the kids to Palermo - even without Secret Service protection. And though Mount Etna erupted last week - damaging property for the seventh time in 30 years and forcing 1,000 people to flee their homes - Palermo is a reassuring 150 km away. The city may not have the spruced-up-for-tourists look of Venice or Florence, but it is beautiful, an open-air museum of the foreign cultures that have conquered Sicily over the centuries. A short walk can lead one past Byzantine mosaics, Arab domes, Norman churches and Spanish sculptures. The most striking architectural hybrid...
...night, we write response papers ripping apart political theories and literary masterpieces. The earnest “Hey hey, ho ho, war in Iraq must go” of the kids in front of the Science Center offends our critical sensibilities. We blush, cringe, smirk and flee to the safety of the library, even when we support the chanters’ cause...
...Chechens have reportedly set a deadline of 6am, Moscow time (10pm, EST) for their demands to be met, after which they'll begin executing their captives. They have described themselves as "smertniki" - those condemned to death, or kamikaze - and have killed at least one hostage who had tried to flee. Although Russian special forces have surrounded the building, they insist they wont storm it unless the Chechens start executing hostages. Negotiations aimed at a peaceful resolution continue...