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...brought the ashes of his dead, estranged wife Generosa Ammon with him to the bar at Manhattan's swank Stanhope Hotel last week, it was only the latest bizarre installment in the titillating tale of the fall of the house of Ammon. So far, the story involves the unsolved murder of a dashing multimillionaire at his East Hampton, N.Y., estate, a felonious electrician, a missing laptop, a handsomely compensated British nanny and now a dispute over a dead woman's remains. "If this was on Dallas, nobody would believe it," says Steven Gaines, author of Philistines at the Hedgerow...
...expert witness in scores of cases involving allegations of child abuse through factitious illness by proxy. But now Meadow is under attack. Two high-profile criminal trials in which he was a witness have recently collapsed. Sally Clark of Cheshire and Trupti Patel of Berkshire were both tried for murder, accused of suffocating their children and blaming cot death. Patel was acquitted in June. The case against Clark, a lawyer who served three years in prison after her 1999 conviction for killing two of her three sons, was struck down on appeal in April when it emerged that pathologist Alan...
...CHARGED. Two Unidentified Iranian Interrogators, with the "semi-intentional murder" (in the words of the Tehran prosecutor's office) of Canadian photojournalist Zara Kazemi; in Tehran. Kazemi, 54, died of head injuries two weeks after she was taken into custody for shooting pictures outside a prison in the Iranian capital, and officials claimed she suffered a stroke. But after protests by Reporters Without Borders and the Canadian government, they admitted Kazemi died of a hemorrhage caused by a severe blow to the skull...
...Antiproselytizing laws, torture for converting to Christianity, murder of missionaries, secret converts hiding their freely chosen beliefs for fear of state-approved reprisals: how do all these things line up with fundamental human rights? One must ask why the unfettered liberties that made the 9/11 attacks possible were not available to the attackers in their native lands. The battle between faith and fear continues to rage, but the West must watch out for more whirlwinds from the East. Ferdinand Nweke Bauchi, Nigeria...
...that calm and stability might return to the entire violence-stricken region. Along with Coulibaly's arrest and the wave of Abidjan detentions, passions were inflamed when Ivorian rebels killed two soldiers in France's 4,000-strong peacekeeping force imposing a cease-fire. "The French arrests prevented the murder of Ivory Coast's democratically elected President, but the bloodshed continues," says Gbagbo adviser Toussaint Marie. "Alas, Ivorians are no closer to peace, as long as half the nation is controlled and plundered by rebels. French law was enforced in France; international law awaits enforcement here...