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Before leaving Malé, I walk clear around the island, stopping at the monument to the tetrapods, the name given to the interlocking concrete blocks that form the towering breakwaters protecting the city's most vulnerable flanks. Behind the breakwaters I hear the crash of invisible waves, in front the laughter...
Earlier, some 225 miles to the southwest of Johannesburg, police in the Orange Free State town of Brandfort raided the house of Winnie Mandela, the wife of Nelson Mandela. They arrested 30 people after firing tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd. Mrs. Mandela, who has been banished to...
Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi conduct all litigation, including financial cases, through Islamic courts. That presents banks with a particular problem because Muslim law forbids riba, the earning or payment of interest, on the ground that it is usury. For years the Muslim world quietly allowed the ban on riba...
Steroids on the Sox? Maybe. I'm sure there are 'roids, or human growth hormone, or good old-fashioned bennies being taken (the latter two still not tested for, and the next refuge for baseball scoundrels who are today decycling on their steroids programs). I was talking to Bill Leiderman...
During a lull in the Soviet shelling, the two bodies were carried upstairs to the Chancellery garden, doused with gasoline and set afire. Even before the flames died down, renewed shelling drove the survivors underground again. Goebbels and Nazi Party Secretary Martin Bormann decided to try offering the Soviets a...