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That was the objective when the Iraqi government announced in March that they had executed an infamous psychopath and insurgent hit man named Shukair Farid, "the butcher of Mosul," whose gang slaughtered more than 200 during a yearlong rampage in the northern city. Farid, a police lieutenant, had gained fame after appearing on the hit reality-TV interrogation show Terrorism in the Hands of Justice, on which he told in gruesome detail of the scores of Iraqi lives he took, often using his uniform to trap victims. Farid didn't go easily. On the morning the convoy of Iraqi officials...
...member of the Harvard Canadian Club or the Alaska Klub, most dishes are. And revenge was certainly what the Canadian Club was looking for in their epic confrontation last Friday with the Alaska Klub in a little-known (and perhaps made-up-on-the-spot) northern pastime called “Big Ball.” The two teams convened at the Weeks Footbridge, the Canadians sporting red and white garb and removable tattoos of their homeland’s flag, and the Alaskans in shorts. “We’re going to dedicate our victory to taking...
...when prosecutors asked for other evidence to be handed over, Greek-Cypriot authorities in the south refused, demanding that the trial be held on their turf. United Nations mediators tried but failed to break the deadlock, and the suspects were soon released from custody and remain at large in northern Cyprus and Turkey. "It's a sad story," the Greek Cypriot Attorney General Petros Clerides told Time. Sad - and typical. For 32 years, ever since an Athens-backed coup d'état triggered renewed fighting between Greek and Turkish Cypriots and provided the Turkish army with a pretext to invade...
...think it will help boost the country's image as a relaxing and nice place to stay." WANASIRI MORAKUL, a director of the Thailand government's Film Office, on Rambo IV: In the Serpent's Eye, which starts production next year in the country's northern provinces...
...what will likely determine the results in all of the closest contests around the country: turnout. What has helped Democrats win the past two governor's races in this traditionally Republican state has been changing demographics. Sixty percent of the state's growth since 2000 has come from the Northern Virginia suburbs outside Washington - areas that are heavily Democratic. In 2005, Democrat Tim Kaine easily won the governor's race in Virginia; though he didn't perform as well in rural areas as outgoing Democratic governor Mark Warner did in 2001, he compensated by running very well in Northern Virginia...