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...Liberia, where the militia was responsible for killing, maiming, raping and arson within the rural areas. That's exactly what's happening. Twenty-five thousand people internally displaced, 3,000 people needed hospitalization because of torture, 65 dead, and 200 missing and unaccounted for. So that is a massive scale of deliberate state-sponsored action against unarmed civilians...
...tracked down his regular date, "Kristen," an aspiring singer with a MySpace page. The drab details we glimpsed--would-be American Idol ends up with a bit part in Fallen Idol--contrasted ironically with the club's play-pretend trappings of emperors and diamonds (the basis for its pricing scale...
Hundreds of lawyers launched a nationwide, two-day protest to demand the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf, whose dismissal of 60 senior judges last year prompted earlier lawyer-led rioting. The "long march" to Islamabad is the first large-scale protest against the new, democratically elected government, which had pledged to reinstate the judges...
...Latifah--are increasingly spreading the message that svelte is not the last word in happy. Fit means happy too; so does staying active; so does loving your body no matter its shape. The key is to get that body healthy and keep it that way. The numbers on the scale--pediatricians, nutritionists and psychologists now argue--should start to come second to physical fitness as a gauge for health. After all, says Kelly Brownell, director of Yale University's Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity: "If your child experiences shortness of breath walking upstairs, it's problematic whether...
Human beings are not wired to look at things this way. We're suckers for size, for flash, for speed, for scale; we mistake immensity for complexity and subtlety for simplicity. That has very often been our undoing. Shock and awe should win a war, until an insurgency beats it back. An election should be sealed by storming Super Tuesday, until the campaign dies of a thousand little losses. The 2003 Yankees, with their $180 million payroll, should win the World Series, until the $63 million Marlins send them packing...