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...should not resort to violence even if we have differences.' MAUMOON GAYOOM, President of the Maldives, after an attempt to assassinate him was foiled when a boy scout waiting to greet the island nation's leader grabbed the attacker's knife as he lunged out of a crowd...
...travel up the Rift valley, the scale and fury of Kenya's southern division becomes ever more apparent. We enter a village called Kamosong, and 15 men surround the car. One is carrying a foot-long knife, another a hockey stick, a third a bow and arrow, a fourth a wooden club. A man who introduces himself as Thomas tells us the men are from the Kalenjin tribe of former President Daniel Arap Moi. "Have you got anyone in the back?" they ask Preston. "What's your name? Are you Kikuyu?" A few minutes further on, there is another roadblock...
Compared to the sleek Bohêmes, the Skate Banana (around $600; www.lib-tech.com) seems rough around the edges - but that's the point. Lib-Tech, a U.S.-based design company, last year introduced what it calls "magnetraction technology" - edges that are serrated like a bread knife - and has combined it with a body curved to slide over powder and crud. The result is a snowboard that grips when you need it to and otherwise slips over everything like, yes, a banana peel. A stiffened tip and tail increase stability off big landings in the terrain park, which is where...
...Pring-Wilson for a third time, citing several pieces of “compelling” evidence in the case—inconsistent statements Pring-Wilson gave the police, the presence of Colono’s blood on Pring-Wilson’s clothes, and the fact that the knife used to kill Colono was found in Pring-Wilson’s apartment...
...Friday, the Middlesex district attorney pledged to try Pring-Wilson for a third time, citing several pieces of "compelling" evidence in the case—inconsistent statements Pring-Wilson gave the police, the presence of Colono's blood on Pring-Wilson's clothes, and the fact that the knife used to kill Colono was found in Pring-Wilson's apartment...