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...people of Kogelo were celebrating the ascension of one of their own to the most powerful office in the world. It's a miracle for the clan known as the Jor'Obama, or "People of Obama"--after Malik and Barack's grandfather--but it's murder on their animals. Meat is highly prized in a poor community like Kogelo, a pretty village with views of the green hills north of Lake Victoria. Cows and goats are the main measure of wealth here, and most villagers maintain a vegetarian diet. The past few days, however, have witnessed a comparative bloodbath: scores...
...sometimes blunt analysis of reason's role in religion that included a denigrating historical reference to Mohammed - as a monumental slap in the face. The Pope's defenders argued that some of the more radical reactions to the speech, including church burnings in the West Bank and the murder of a nun in Somalia, were themselves proof that Benedict was right to delve deeply into the question of violence in Islam. All agreed that more than tea would be needed to repair the damage...
...people of Kogelo may be celebrating what they expect will be the ascension of one of their own to the most powerful office in the world, but it's murder on their animals. Meat is highly prized in a poor community like Kogelo, and with cows and goats the main measure of wealth, most villages choose a vegetarian diet most of the time. The past few days, however, have witnessed a comparative bloodbath: More than 200 chickens disappeared into a giant pot whose contents will be served to all comers outside the village dispensary. Malik, inundated by more than...
...front door of her house; her adult son had been killed moments before by a shot through the kitchen window; her 7-year-old grandson was missing, his bullet-riddled body later recovered in an abandoned car. The boy's stepfather, on parole after years in prison for attempted murder and carjacking, has been taken in for questioning. "Because I chose to do what was natural to me and love someone," the child's mother, Julia Hudson, wrote on her MySpace page, "it cost me my beautiful family...
...denied any wrongdoing, and in separate accounts have blamed the attack on robbers. They have also accused the police of mishandling evidence, including the victim's bra, which they say had the defendants' DNA on it because it had been left on the crime scene for days after the murder. But each defendant's legal team has insinuated in court that the fellow defendants may be responsible for the murder. Guede reportedly chose the fast-track procedure because he feared the other two defendants had a pact against...