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...working menial hotel jobs--with a year-round population of slightly more than 2,000. Yet even in the off-season Avon retains a certain lazy, carefree air. Sweeping front porches serve as social hubs. Traffic grinds to a halt so that ducks can meander across the street. Underemployed policemen ride around on bicycles and hand out "citations" for good behavior, redeemable for free sugar cones at Beach Plum Homemade Ice Cream...
...said they had not read the novel. Who told them it was sacrilegious? Someone living in a cave in the mountains of Afghanistan, or sitting in a London cafe or a mosque in New Jersey, told them so. In Egypt alone, these fundamentalists have killed more than 1,000 policemen and ordinary citizens, Christian and Muslim alike. In one of the most beautiful places on earth, the temple of Queen Hatshepsut in Luxor, they slaughtered nearly 60 tourists in 1997. In Algeria their sickles endlessly harvest the souls of the poor and helpless. They have committed all these crimes with...
...knows for sure who is to blame for the murders. But even by the bloody standards of Thailand's troubled Muslim south, it's the worst wave of violence in decades. Police stations, train stations, hotels and government offices have all been bombed lately. Since January alone, 17 policemen have been murdered, and a bounty of 200,000 baht ($5,000) has been offered up by a shady Muslim group to encourage further cop killings. And nobody knows why. "It's creepy," says Sergeant Marohsae Moohanan of Sungai Padi Station near Thailand's border with Malaysia. Earlier this month...
...Hutu rebels in two weeks. Most of the rebels were killed at Gitega, 100 km east of the capital Bujumbura, where 152 rebels died, according to a military spokesman. The army said that rebel Forces for the Defense of Democracy entered Burundi from Tanzania. INDIA Assam Ambushes Seven policemen were killed in a suspected rebel attack in India's northeastern state of Assam. Police said militants ambushed an armed police convoy in the central district of North Cachar Hills, spraying it with automatic gunfire. An unknown number of other policemen were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the attack...
...found in denying collective failures and mistakes or closing minds and hearts to the plight of those who have been hurt." For most of Northern Ireland's Troubles, the I.R.A. created a hefty share of that hurt. It killed half of the 3,600 people who died - British soldiers, policemen and bystanders in the street - and injured tens of thousands. It has formally backed peace since the 1998 Good Friday agreement, but even so, many players in the peace process are skeptical. The reason: even in peacetime, the I.R.A. is still the formidable force that Britain could not defeat. Most...