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Dates: during 2000-2009
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People still come to this spot at the end of Lock Three Road, in the swamps along the Louisiana-Mississippi border, where Cynthia Lynch's bloodied body was found beneath shrubs. Her death was an unlikely culmination to a weekend-long Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony, coming just days after Barack Obama's victory. She had applied to join online and traveled hundred of miles to attend the ceremony. Her death has left this region shocked, fearful of resurgent white supremacist groups, and dreading becoming a symbol of racial hatred in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Klan Initiation Murder: A Backlash to Obama's Victory? | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

...will cost him friends across the Middle East. The Gaza attack has strengthened Arab radicals while silencing the voices of moderate states once willing to improve ties with Israel. Egypt is in an especially tight spot: having brokered the old cease-fire and sealed its border with Gaza to lock in Hamas, the Egyptian government of President Hosni Mubarak is now being accused - by his own people and the larger Arab world - of looking the other way while Gaza burns. (Mubarak has responded by allowing some of Gaza's wounded to be brought to Egypt for treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle over Gaza | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

...College of Cardinals - once dominated by Italians - has become a much more diverse group. Still, Europeans continue to have a virtual lock in overall numbers: exactly half of the current 116 Cardinal electors (those under age 80) are from Europe, with Italy still counting 20. Latin America has 20 Cardinal electors, the United States and Canada a total of 16. Asia has 11 and Africa nine. Any Cardinal (any baptized male Catholic, in theory) can emerge from a conclave as Pope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Catholic Church Ever Have a Black Pope? | 12/21/2008 | See Source »

...because they may face torture and other abuses there. Some 100 Yemenis will soon be sent home and put into a program aimed at rehabilitating jihadist militants, and the U.S. will have to find its own way to resolve the fate of those detainees it wants to keep under lock and key, possibly bringing them to the U.S. mainland to face trial. But what to do with the 60 detainees deemed harmless yet vulnerable to persecution in their home countries has been one of the knottiest problems in closing down Guantánamo. (See pictures from inside Guantánamo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portugal's Offer to Help the US Close Guantánamo | 12/18/2008 | See Source »

...wanting to hear more about the interaction that we’ve had with HUPD, and really supportive and willing to listen.”The task force appointment was prompted by an Aug. 8 incident in which HUPD officers confronted a young black man attempting to remove a lock from a bicycle in a conversation allegedly “laced with obscenities.” The man turned out to be a Boston area high school student working at Harvard for the summer. HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano said in an e-mailed statement that HUPD would...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HUPD Relations Report Delayed | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

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