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When Amina Lawal gave birth to a big-eyed baby girl late last year, she hoped her life was getting better. After leaving her second husband, she had started dating Yahaya Mohammed, a good-looking neighbor with a steady job. When she became pregnant, Mohammed said at first that he didn't want children. But a chief in the couple's mud-walled village of Kurami ruled that Mohammed must take responsibility for his child, and the reluctant father gave Lawal money to buy firewood to boil water during the delivery. Lawal says Mohammed also agreed to marry...
...CONVICTED. DAVID WESTERFIELD, 50, of kidnapping and murdering seven-year-old Danielle Van Dam; in San Diego. Prosecutors have vowed to seek the death penalty against the former engineer, a neighbor of the girl's family. He is believed to have abducted the girl from her bedroom in early February...
...meetings paraphrases Clarke's attitude this way: "These people are trying to kill us. I could give a f___ if Musharraf was democratically elected. What I do care about is Pakistan's support for the Taliban and turning a blind eye to this terrorist cancer growing in their neighbor's backyard...
...find Tommy’s open a little—and sometimes a lot—past the 2 a.m. closing time that is supposed to be in place. The pizzeria’s previous 3 a.m. closing time was revoked last October, following complaints initiated by Bow Street neighbor Genevieve McMillan...
...Powell camp also worries that war with Iraq would destabilize the entire Islamic crescent from the Mediterranean to the Himalayas and that a post-Saddam Iraq might devolve into neighbor-rattling chaos. To make sure the hotheads consider every complication and consequence, Powell has forged an informal alliance with powerful old pals in uniform at the Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They are, like him, Vietnam-era generals who believe that regardless of whether an invasion is a good idea (and most doubt that it is), any military action must follow the old Powell doctrine: overwhelming in size...