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Mexico's real carnage, meanwhile, gets ghastlier by the day. This year the nation has logged some 4,300 drug-related murders, and analysts fear that Mexico could double last year's record of 2,500. The spike in killing is largely due to the war Calderón declared last year on the drug cartels. He has deployed more than 25,000 federal army troops in the campaign, but the narcos have lashed out with insurrection-style violence against a harrowing number of law-enforcement officials, from beat cops to top cops like Millan, as well as prosecutors...
...everybody in this country riven by civil war wanted to blame somebody else for the slaughter. Eyewitnesses said the forces of rebel leader Charles Taylor were responsible; Taylor blamed the pro-government Armed Forces of Liberia. Now investigators believe that both versions have a piece of the even ghastlier truth. Taylor's rebels entered the camp, stole rice from the refugees and then went on a killing orgy. A.F.L. soldiers, who were supposed to be guarding the camp, did not intervene or bother to phone nearby West African peacekeeping troops, and later they looted the corpses...
Sigmund Freud himself could not have contrived a ghastlier childhood for a poet. Rilke was born in Prague in 1875. Thanks to his mother he spent his first five years as a girl. Thanks to his father he spent five more years (aged 10 to 15) in the hell of a military school. He came out of it a hypersensitive androgyne, who wrote facile poetry and worse prose, traveled in Italy and Russia, gradually crystallized the beginnings of a serious art in which virginity, roses and death held almost obsessive symbolic values...
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