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...soldiers or rebels have died in battle, but thousands of civilians have perished. Two weeks ago, two bodies lay by the side of the road leading to a Monrovia airport, hands tied behind their backs. A third man, denying he was a Krahn, pleaded with the rebels for his life -- but to no avail. Creating yet more violence, Prince Yormie Johnson, a Gio, split away from Taylor last February. By the summer, Johnson and his few hundred men had swept into the center of the capital, taking on both Doe's and Taylor's forces...
...that the government has rested its case in the Enron fraud and conspiracy trial, those who lost millions in the company's collapse more than four years ago will finally get to hear from the two men at the top-former Chairman Ken Lay and ex-CEO Jeff Skilling. Although the defense plans to call as many as 113 witnesses over the next four to six weeks, both men must now take the stand to clear themselves after weeks of damaging testimony by ex-employees like whistleblower Sherron Watkins. In fact, several of the government's 22 witnesses testified under...
...want to set a deadline, or prescribe a precise method [for currency revaluation]. We just have to feel that they believe this is the right course?this trip has helped convince us of that. And now the next important step, and only other step, would be for them to lay out a plan by which the currency would float after a reasonable period of time ... The jury is still out on that...
...Karl grabbed Aden and pushed him under a mattress. "I just yelled 'Get under there, lay on the floor,' and I got down with him,'' he says. Nikita and her boyfriend Michael managed to get into the hallway under mattresses, but Jenny was caught. "I heard this explosion and I looked up and saw the roof suddenly sucked 30 m up into the air, spinning around and around, and above it the sky was a weird electric blue. I felt myself being sucked upward," she says. "It was like a twister.'' Karl thought the worst: "I heard this scream...
...television spear towards him. The heavy set catapulted him onto the floor. Rain pelted down on him. The roof was gone. Crausaz crawled out of the kitchen and in terror grabbed a plastic bucket, which he put over his head. For the next 40 minutes he half-knelt, half-lay on the floor with the bucket on his head, tightly gripping the door. "I know it wouldn't have stopped much," he says, "but I thought if I could keep the door closed it would just stop any projectiles flying into me; I thought I would survive...