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...mourners was John Chege, 38, and his partner Rosemary Chesang, 34. He is Kikuyu, she Kalenjin and the couple own a hut half a mile from the church, where Chege grew maize and potatoes and Chesang raised their six children. Chege never thought much about the divide that ran through their land yet somehow spared their home. But after 16 months in a refugee camp, being alternately called traitors by Kikuyus and Kalenjins, he realized "ours is a slightly special case." When asked how Kenya's future would turn out, Chege spoke about his children. "When they play," he said...
Some House aides complain that Cornyn - who was responsible for pulling the plug on Palin initially, when she waffled about whether she could commit to the dinner - issued the second invitation only because he recently ran afoul of conservatives when he endorsed Florida Governor Charlie Crist over conservative darling Mark Rubio months ahead of the primary for the Florida Senate. Cornyn's folks, not surprisingly, reject this idea. (See highlights from a debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin...
...wearing a thick jacket vaulted the wall of the police compound in Islamabad and entered the courtyard. According to eyewitnesses at the scene, the police shouted at the man and then opened fire as he ran toward them. Wounded by the bullets, the bomber detonated his device, instantly killing one constable and fatally wounding another who would die moments later. "He was trying to target the main building but our men foiled his attempt and one of our men laid down his life," senior police officer Bin Yameen told reporters at the scene. (See TIME's photos of Pakistan...
...York for dinner and a Broadway show is idiotically attacked as financially wasteful by Republican National Committee, which, if memory serves, registered no public concern about the cost to the public of George W. Bush's 77 jaunts to the Texas boonies where he cut lots of brush, ran around and rode bikes in sweltering heat, and ignored various warnings of impending disasters...
...Back in the United States, Obama's decision to stay in Dresden has sparked protests from some of Obama's conservative political critics, who have argued that the visit demonstrates his willingness to highlight America's lesser historical moments. "Dresden: Next Stop on Obama's Apology Tour," ran one headline on the conservative Powerline blog. Obama's aides rejected those suggestions, pointing to the same logistical issues that the president had mentioned, and a desire to find a location that was convenient for Merkel. (See pictures of people around the world watching Obama's inauguration...