Word: nairobi
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...fewer than a dozen; the rest had died from fighting, starvation, animal attacks and suicides. It was at this camp that Jal met Emma McCune, a British aid worker who took a shine to the boy, adopted him and smuggled him onto a flight to a new life in Nairobi. Three months later she died in a road accident. (Nicole Kidman is soon to play McCune in a biopic by director Tony Scott.) Ironically, with no gun to bolster his courage Jal found Nairobi a frightening place. Remembering how, in the worst hours of his desert trek, his prayers...
...strong-armed into signing the deal, now have more reason to be wary of southern intentions. "In the north, Garang was perceived to be somebody that supported the view that voluntary union might be possible," says David Mozersky, a senior analyst on Sudan at the International Crisis Group in Nairobi. "Without Garang there, those elements may try to undermine [the deal] because they see its full implementation as a threat to the regime...
...cardinal principle of ethical journalism: to protect sources even on pain of imprisonment. Journalism will be the better after this trying moment if we remain firm in the face of cajoling and intimidation by those who know they have been exposed. Eric Orina, Secretary-General Kenya Union of Journalists Nairobi The Spirit of Survival I agree wholeheartedly with the praise bestowed upon the British by Andrew Sullivan in his Essay "The Quiet Power of the Stoic" [July 18]. The manner in which the Brits handled the tragedy was noble and inspiring. But the response of Americans, especially New Yorkers...
...cardinal principle of ethical journalism: to protect sources even on pain of imprisonment. Journalism will be the better after this trying moment if we remain firm in the face of cajoling and intimidation by those who know they have been exposed. Eric Orina, Secretary-General Kenya Union of Journalists Nairobi...
ARRESTED. Peter Beard, 47, jet-set photographer-adventurer and estranged husband of Supermodel Cheryl Tiegs, whose work depicts Beautiful People and vanishing African wildlife; on charges of illegally cultivating marijuana on his Kenyan ranch and of possession of allegedly obscene materials, notably a book of Helmut Newton photographs; in Nairobi. Beard denied both charges and was released on $294 bail...