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...ways of the past are gone. "Beneath our smiles, our hearts have closed," says a former army officer, a Sunni. "We no longer trust them, nor do they trust us." Residents believe the killers come from outside Washash, but they know there are informers within. Armed Shi'ite vigilantes patrol the streets, questioning strangers. Because Shi'ites are in the majority in Washash, the Sunnis tend to suffer more. Twenty-five Sunni men disappeared into police custody on Aug. 12, according to human-rights activists, who say the security forces are heavily infiltrated by the Shi'ite militia. No record...
...dwelling has been bulldozed for a hundred yards. Thriving hothouses and comfortable red-roofed villas set in lush, green gardens spread across the dunes, huddling inside rings of razor wire and electric fence. Three-story military watchtowers draped in camouflage rear up out of back gardens, and tanks patrol the perimeters. The only Palestinians allowed within view are the laborers who come in each day to work in the hothouses. And when the Palestinians go home, they pass through military checkpoints where they are forced to show they have not taken any greenhouse fertilizer, which could be turned into explosives...
...early hours of August 2, 1943, the American patrol torpedo boat PT 109, skippered by John F. Kennedy, was running slowly on one engine - to avoid detection - in the Blackett Strait, off Kolombangara Island. Its mission, like that of other PT boats, was to harass a fast-moving convoy of Japanese supply ships. On a moonless night, with little warning, Kennedy's 25-m wooden boat was rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri. PT 109 burst into flames, two men were killed, and the 11 surviving crew members had to abandon the boat. Four hours later, after swimming almost...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) detectives were conducting a routine patrol of the Harvard Square area on Linden Street in an unmarked vehicle...
Hoping to find flames, she moved west to Montana’s Yellowstone National Park, where she dispersed law enforcement and medical expertise and fought a few fires on patrol. It was a good job, but it came at a cost. She virtually had to give up contact with the world, getting just one day a week to make calls and check mail in town. And every winter, she risked “furlough,” or being temporarily laid...