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...SIERRA LEONE Child Soldiers Freed Rebels released more than 100 child soldiers and agreed to begin disarming after U.N.-sponsored peace talks in Freetown. Representatives of the Revolutionary United Front said they would free another 200 of the estimated 5,000 children in their ranks. Pro-government militias also agreed to end hostilities in what is seen as the most hopeful step toward ending 10 years of civil war. Demobilization will begin in two northern towns immediately, and further locations by the end of the month...
...they can be. With this latest misstep, the doubts about the process are threatening to help reshape the whole death-penalty debate. The prospect of McVeigh's execution had already made every argument get up and dance. Just as capital punishment was losing support with each new innocent man freed by DNA evidence, along came the perfect villain: so clearly guilty, unrepentant and pitiless that at least 75% of Americans agreed with his sentence, including 22% who say they oppose the death penalty but would make an exception for him. The Pope had asked for mercy; most Americans didn...
Paradox has long been a part of life here, says Georgianne Christian Allen, who is writing a history of Shermantown, an African-American neighborhood in Stone Mountain. According to oral tradition, the neighborhood was created after Union General William Tecumseh Sherman made his fiery path through Georgia and freed slaves, some of whom congregated in the small area between Main Street and the mountain. Elderly blacks remember the injustice of separatism and Shermantown as one of the last areas in DeKalb County to get sewers and paved roads. But even when separatism was perpetuated by law, "Stone Mountain blacks...
...sure the student bands will be great," said Melissa A. Eccleston `04, co-chair of the council's Campus Life Committee (CLC). "Plus, we freed up more money for other aspects like amusements...
...than put on a defiant show at the funerals of its "martyrs," Hamas fired a series of 82-mm mortars on the Israeli town of Sderot. "We have to prove ourselves," the Hamas military-wing officer tells TIME. Early in the intifada, Palestinian and Israeli security officials say, Arafat freed Hamas fighters from his jails and gave them a green light to bomb Israeli towns. An agent in Arafat's General Intelligence was suspended in December when he tried to arrest a Hamas cell in Gaza that was planning suicide bombings, according to Palestinian security officials close to the case...