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When TIME visited the scene of the raid-a run-down former administrator's House at Same, about 50km south of Dili, which the rebels took over on Feb. 26-Australian soldiers were still manning checkpoints on nearby access roads. Parts of the building's roof had been blown off, apparently by the downdraft from the two Black Hawk helicopters used in the raid, and there were bullet holes in some trees along nearby roads. Two boxes of medical supplies and a generator appeared to have been abandoned by the rebels...
...another, and keep on throwing. Generations of conflict between Protestants and Catholics only hardened the alloy. But McCord, 53, a powerfully built welder from a Protestant family, always showed his mettle in standing up to the sectarian men of violence. Having grown up in North Belfast, the crowded, often run-down part of the city where one in five of Northern Ireland's murders is committed, he built his reputation by standing up to the paramilitary gangs that rule the neighborhoods. "I don't like bullies," he says. "I've been fighting them since...
...Three of the victims lived on the same floor of the same run-down apartment building in Nithari and one had been reported missing for nearly two years. Yet not once did the police come to the building to investigate the disappearances. Many of the victims were pretty young women like Bina Halder, 13, who vanished on March 15, 2005. She had been working as a maid in order to raise enough money for a dowry that would allow her a marriage good enough to escape the neighborhood. But when her mother, Aloki Halder, went to the police to report...
Pixar's latest is among the computer-animation studio's best: the story of a full-of-itself race car (voiced by Owen Wilson) forced to set down roots in a run-down jalopy town full of rural eccentrics like the rube tow truck Mater (Larry the Cable Guy). Not to stomp on Happy Feet or anything, but director John Lasseter, who virtually invented CGI movie wit, smartly rev ups the fun in this, the most stylish car-toon ever...
...About 65 miles south of Tehran, there lies Jamkaran, a tiny, run-down mosque which in the past 20 years has been designated as the spot the Mahdi went into concealment. Pious Iranians, with government help, have transformed the site into a massive devotional center for the Mahdi, and on weekends tens of thousands of Iranian pilgrims peer down the well where legend says he is hiding. Some visitors claim to have seen the Mahdi there, and report things he allegedly said to them. More commonly, people write him letters asking for blessing, and drop them down the well...