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...outcry over Mugabe's role in wrecking Zimbabwe has come a decade too late. Unleashing a reign of terror on white settlers, Mugabe confiscated the farms of non-Africans, broke the land up into small, unproductive plots and distributed it to landless Africans. As a result, Zimbabwe's agriculture is in shambles today and its economy a well-documented ruin after years of prosperity. The West, however, said nothing about this theft of land, fearing that it would be "politically incorrect" to criticize racially motivated land reform. For too long Mugabe has piggybacked on the sentiments of those sympathetic...
...have to work sort of the dark side." Mayer's new book argues that he meant what he said: "For the first time in its history," she writes, "the United States sanctioned government officials to physically and psychologically torment U.S.-held captives, making torture the official law of the land in all but name." The author, an investigative reporter for the New Yorker, meticulously demonstrates that the Administration, fully aware that as many as a third of the detainees in Guantánamo may have had no connection to terrorism, still proceeded with medieval treatment that the Red Cross warned...
...best known for portraying Scarlett O'Hara's younger sister Suellen in 1939's Gone With the Wind, but during her career, actress Evelyn Keyes appeared in nearly 50 films. She gave notable performances in movies including The Jolson Story, but despite her onscreen successes, she never managed to land a career-changing role. Still, Keyes made the most of her time in Hollywood in other ways, famously dating some of the most sought-after...
...economic engine. "If you just take U.S. Sugar out of the mix and don't replace it with anything, it'll be catastrophic," said Antonio Perez, one of the town's four attorneys. Perez also grows cane that's sold to U.S. Sugar, and runs a private school on land donated by the company...
...Couse, chairman and CEO of the First Bank of Clewiston, owns 500 acres of land on which he grows cane sold to U.S. Sugar. Not only is the fate of private growers like him now in limbo, but so are other plans: This week, a meeting was held to decide the fate of a planned $14 million expansion, including a new emergency room, planned for the town's 55-year-old hospital. But the local stakeholders decided to move ahead...