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Images of women and children with their heads split open, of babies stacked in heaps, of limp corpses sprawled in doorways have become almost routine in this part of the world in the past two years. The July 20 massacre of 330 Tutsi civilians in Burundi and subsequent Tutsi-led army coup are just the latest turns in a horrifying spiral of violence that has engulfed Rwanda, Burundi and eastern Zaire in a conflict that often seems to defy explanation. Yet, like most wars, the struggle between Hutu and Tutsi is the product of unique influences that beat...
Zyuganov's parents, neither of whom ever joined the party, were schoolteachers. His father Andrei, a peaceful man whose hobby was beekeeping, nearly lost his right leg to a German bullet in the fighting near Sevastopol and walked with a severe limp for the rest of his life. Like much of rural Russia, Mymrino still lacks plumbing and paved roads. The region suffered from the mass arrests and forced collectivization of Stalin's time, although you won't hear Zyuganov talk about that when he rhapsodizes about Russia's rural past in his speeches...
...they discovered the infant and, for no apparent reason, beat him hard enough to fracture his skull and cause severe internal bleeding. Then they dropped him on the bed and fled with the tricycle. Maria Bermudez, who was babysitting her step-brother, discovered his bruised and limp body when she came out of the bathroom...
...work of liberals. Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp and trembly. TQO is the heavy hand of Big Business. You want to see a big mitt, this...
...their coach, Marina Zueva, and two emergency medical technicians tried to resuscitate Grinkov, Wylie raced over. "I touched his skate to say a prayer for him," said Wylie. "But his leg was limp." Within four minutes an ambulance arrived to take Grinkov to the Adirondack Medical Center. For nearly an hour, Dr. Joshua Schwartzberg and the hospital staff worked to revive him, but Grinkov never responded, and he was pronounced dead at 12:28 p.m. When Schwartzberg gave Gordeeva the news, she sobbed on the floor, with Zueva at her side. She then asked if she could see her husband...