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...Brigade, it spent the following six years killing, maiming and terrorizing the population that supported the then opposition PF-ZAPU. The Catholic Church estimated that at least 3,000 people were killed before the opposition caved and was absorbed into Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF). (See pictures of political high tension in Zimbabwe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zimbabwe: Time to Stay Tough | 7/23/2009 | See Source »

...Police reports and statements from Gates' lawyer suggest that police officers, investigating a tip of a possible break-in at Gates' Cambridge home, got into a confrontation with the 58-year-old professor, who was returning home from a trip to China and forced his way through a jammed front door with a car driver's help...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Students, Professors Eye Racial Factors in Gates' Arrest | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

Earlier this year, the Tajik military launched the Poppy-2009 operation, which the government says is aimed at combating the smuggling of drugs from Afghanistan across Tajikistan's porous, mountainous borders into the Rasht Valley and Badakhshan regions. Some believe that Poppy-2009 is actually a front for operations against Tajik opposition leaders. The government has publicly denied the charge, but observers say that if Dushanbe is indeed trying to put down suspected opposition forces under the cover of an anti-drug-smuggling operation, it only confirms that Central Asian militants are leaving Afghanistan and returning home, since many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Afghanistan's War Is Spilling into Central Asia | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

...their league; that’s not Acta’s fault, and his firing is an unfortunate part of how the game is played. If they are serious about competing, the Nationals need to focus on making changes, on the field and in the mindset of their front office, that will fix what’s actually broken...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: Managing Expectations | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

...gently leads a lady down King’s Road. Every morning the woman in an orange vest grins around sticking-out teeth, blithely handing out free newspapers. There is a man with a two and a half foot beard selling novels on Lamma Island. A shopkeeper in front of my apartment explains how her dresses can also be skirts. The squat blond ex-pat led by four Pomeranians on leashes crosses the bridge where the man with an egg-shaped back leans against the railing, looking over the harbor, as he does every afternoon starting around...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover | Title: True Fiction | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

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