Word: mayhem
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Afsana's family were among the estimated 400 people who perished last week in vicious ethnic mayhem in India's western Gujarat state. The worst such outbreak since 1993, the killings tested anew the fragile relations between India's 830 million Hindus and 150 million Muslims, and underscored the challenge Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee faces trying to settle their volcanic disputes. At the heart of last week's bloodshed was the northern city of Ayodhya, where in 1992 Hindu militants destroyed a 400-year-old mosque built on the site they believe to be the birthplace of the Hindu...
That only adds to the perception that cell-phone operators could do more to stop mobile mayhem. In the U.K. the tabloid press has regularly accused service providers of guilt by inertia. "Their pathetic inaction is responsible for a crime wave and pretty soon someone is going to be murdered for their mobile," blasted the Express. The French daily Libération also attacked service providers for their slowness in finding a solution...
BEST NONPERFORMANCE BY A SUPPORTING ACTOR Jon Voight was barely recognizable as Howard Cosell in Ali, and he captured the toupeed one's vocal rhythms even more convincingly than John Turturro did in the TV movie Monday Night Mayhem. But since when do impersonations win acting awards...
When case IT-02-54 is finally heard at the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague this week, it will mark a moment many despaired would never come. The Serb strongman and former President of Yugoslavia who presided over a decade of mass murder and mayhem across the Balkans seemed untouchable for so long, and then became almost forgotten as the world's attention fixed on a new global villain. Yet Slobodan Milosevic will now have to sit each day in a well-lit U.N. courtroom, flanked by two guards, to answer to charges of crimes against humanity--even...
...Utter chaos, untold mayhem"--those were but a few of the gloomy predictions on what changing over to the euro would cause in France. But the arrival of the euro proved to be a fabulous and magical moment, as distrust gave way to sheer excitement. Oddly enough, for all the minor inconveniences that switching to a totally new currency overnight could have generated, there was a prevailing sense of conviviality and togetherness as French people started fiddling with their euro coins and bills. Buying my usual baguette at my local bakery on Jan. 1, I witnessed a spending frenzy...