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...visited key Congo allies, a U.N. report said the country's civil war was driven by the desire of African leaders to exploit its natural resources. ZIMBABWE Changing the Rules Days after the Supreme Court threw out charges of terrorism and sabotage against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, the official Herald newspaper announced government plans to introduce the death penalty for the same charges. A new public order and security bill will make it an offense to "undermine the authority" of the President or engender hostility toward him. In Harare, 35 people protesting proposed changes to election procedures were arrested...
...even if the clothes aren't changing, other elements of the business are. When the International Herald Tribune put the headline "Dior's Aggression Misses the New Romantic Beat" on fashion writer Suzy Menkes' review of the spring-summer Christian Dior collection, she found herself banned from LVMH shows. Executives complained that the remarks made the company look insensitive to the post-Sept. 11 world. Arena Homme Plus had to recall its fall issue - delivered the week of the attacks - which pictured on the cover a bloodied Justin Timberlake wearing Army dog tags...
...finally to Australia, where the Sydney Morning Herald's Hamish McDonald offers a thoughtful analysis of the dilemmas facing special forces operatives in a real-time war. "Right in front of the TV cameras, American and British special forces went about their deadly work, using burning oil, tanks and air strikes to put down the last sparks of resistance by Taliban prisoners who had seized weapons and taken over the Qalai Janghi fort? The horrors of this and another fierce fight in the country's far south at Takhta Pul, near Kandahar, last week showed the risks and grim moral...
...transitions on both ends could herald an end to an always-rocky town-gown relationship that was at a low point in recent years, say some observers of the Cambridge political scene...
...fact that the editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper was an ex-brother of the fraternity raised the ire of many within the group. Fraternity member Travis Caldaro was quoted in the Miami Herald as complaining that “I’m more embarrassed about the fact that a brother on the editorial board of the Miami Hurricane decided to print a story about his own fraternity...