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...wanted British responsibility for it to be moot by the time the screaming started over the new borders. No preparations were therefore made to control the inevitable havoc. The result was a bloody birthday gift to newborn India and Pakistan as millions of people were uprooted amid massacres and murder. "I am sick with horror," Nehru would write his friend Mountbatten after visiting one affected area. More horror was to come: refugee camps everywhere and, eventually, war with Pakistan over Kashmir, an enmity, potent as nuclear bombs, that lasts to this day. Five months after independence, the idealism...
...minutes: according to AT&T, phone traffic dropped 60% from 10 a.m. to 10:05 a.m. P.T. In appliance stores and offices and diners, we dropped everything and watched as nine blacks, two whites and one Hispanic rendered their verdict: Orenthal James Simpson was not guilty of the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. On the streets of African-American neighborhoods and the campuses of black colleges, we high-fived total strangers in jubilation. In white communities, we sat in quiet shock or vocal disgust. On radio shows, we hailed the acquittal...
...price to pay for it. - By Jeffrey Kluger. Reported by Ilya Garger/Hong Kong Avenging Djindjic SERBIA Police rounded up - or killed - more suspects in the alleged mob hit of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. His suspected assassin, Zvezdan Jovanovic, was arrested, and two of three alleged masterminds of the Djindjic murder plot, Dusan Spasojevic and Mile Lukovic, died in a gun battle with police. The third, Milorad Lukovic (a.k.a. Legija), the former commander of an élite antiterrorist squad called the JSO, is still on the lam. After questioning members of JSO, officials found the body of Ivan Stambolic, a former...
...phone call-suggests to me that they see this as a convenient way for allowing the commission to fail," said Push. "They've never wanted the commission and I feel the White House has always been looking for a way to kill it without having their finger on the murder weapon." Push said the White House has ignored his phone calls and emails for weeks...
...Iraqi Christians what we can do to make their lives more bearable" does not address the central issue of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a ruthless dictator bent on territorial expansion. Hauerwas' assertion that the 9/11 attacks were not an act of war but acts of murder is similarly woolly. If the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center were not an act of war, I don't know what is. JANET LAWSON Concord, Mass...