Word: murderes
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Certainly no one has a monopoly on murder and ethnic cleansing in Burundi. As in Rwanda, majority Hutu and minority Tutsi have set upon each other periodically since the two countries gained independence from Belgium in the early 1960s. Neither group has shown much tolerance for the political ambitions of the other. Burundi's current crisis began in 1993, when Tutsi soldiers assassinated Melchior Ndadaye, a Hutu and the country's first democratically elected President, after he threatened to bring an end to 30 years of Tutsi domination. The killing triggered an orgy of revenge; some 50,000 Burundians died...
...first movie, Lord of the Flies, and the newly opened White Squall, Getty's the romantic lead in Lost Highway, the David Lynch movie being filmed in Death Valley. "It's a twisted love story between me and Patricia Arquette," says Getty. "It's got sex, love, murder--all the good stuff." When not making movies, Getty produces rap records and plays golf. In fact, life would be perfect if everyone could just drop the Getty thing. "It's a hassle," he says of his family name. "I don't try and hide it, but I'm doing...
Butterfield linked Bosket's behavior to the fact that Bosket's father was himself convicted for murder and was sent to the same reform school as Willie at the same...
...Murder, however, is very much an American problem, he said--it occurs 60 times more frequently in the United States than in England...
...Entertainment GuideThis book marks the return to the high literary intensity that Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa mastered before he detoured into public life with his unsuccessful 1990 campaign for his country's presidency. It's a welcome return, says TIME's Paul Gray. What starts as a simple murder-mystery puzzle in the Andes mountains rapidly becomes an attempt to track down, through the labyrinth of fiction, experiences that defy rational explanation. "There is a spookiness about this novel, one that is hard to convey," says Gray. "But Vargas Llosa's meticulously realistic descriptions of this high, unforgiving landscape...