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In a report this month, the New York?based organization Human Rights Watch details how the Joint Operations Command, combining the heads of all Zimbabwe's armed forces, unleashed the violence under the name Operation Makavhoterapapi, or "Where did you put your vote?" Tiseke Kasambala, the organization's Zimbabwe researcher...
It took all of 30 minutes. On June 13, Taliban forces sent two suicide bombers into a prison in the southern Afghan town of Kandahar; they were followed by 30 motorcyle-riding militants, who systematically broke down every cell door in the jail. The audacious raid freed an estimated 400...
Mundane matters like traffic move through simplicity choke points too. On any given day, about a million cars stream into and out of Manhattan. At any given moment, however, only about 8,000 of them are in operation in the heavily traveled midtown area. Keep those cars moving, and traffic...
Coke denied polluting water and sucking wells dry in India, but Seabright admits it mishandled the controversy on the p.r. front. "If people are perceiving that we're using water at their expense, that's not a sustainable operation," he says. "We sell a brand. For us, having goodwill in...
Then again, a former adversary can have extra baggage. For one thing, there will be lingering tensions and suspicions that former rivals still harbor ambitions of their own. The other party is certain to dredge up every damaging sound bite - "Voodoo economics!" - that your former rival hurled in your direction...