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...playfully. “I bet you’d be wrong,” replies Hoge, and she is. It’s not Pearl, but rather Leland’s expat father Albert, who, having abandoned his family to live and write in France, returns after the murder. Though the motivations of Albert, portrayed with steely sullenness by Kevin Spacey, are unclear, there are allusions that he may smell material for a new novel...
...Duvalier's] eight years of power, the onetime country doctor-turned-dictator has alienated almost every friend and neighbor... His own people regard him with horror. Yet through murder, terror and voodoo mysticism, Papa Doc has set himself up as 'President for life' and wields unshakable control over his tiny country ... The one paved road in Haiti ... is now in ruins, pot-holed with foot-deep craters ... The country's once flourishing tourist trade has dwindled from $5,000,000 in the 1958-59 season to less than $500,000 ... All the while, Duvalier's reign of terror continues. Shortly...
...waited on the beach to meet a killer. The man we had come to see carried out murder operations for Hamas, the militant organization bent on reclaiming all of historic Palestine from Israel. We parked our car in a designated spot so his watchers could check that we hadn't been tailed. As the sun dipped into the sea lapping the Gaza Strip on a steamy night last June, the killer was cooling off with a swim. For a wanted man, he seemed rather audacious, relaxing unarmed on the crowded seashore. But though he appeared at ease, he took meticulous...
CHARGED. DANIEL PELOSI, 40, electrician; with second-degree murder in the bludgeoning death of wealthy Manhattan financier Theodore Ammon in Ammon's ivy-covered East Hampton, N.Y., mansion; in Riverhead, N.Y. The case captured tabloid headlines, as Pelosi married Ammon's widow three months after the murder. He has pleaded not guilty...
...into the civilian population, Moqtada al-Sadr has built a grassroots infrastructure for insurrection, with support structures in local mosques dotted around the country recruiting young men for his "Army of the Mahdi" militia. Following the arrest of one of his top aides on suspicion of involvement in the murder of a pro-U.S. cleric almost a year ago (the same incident for which Moqtada is now wanted) and the closure of his newspaper last week, the 30-year-old cleric appears to have ordered his supporters to rise up and seize control of their neighborhoods. Much...