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...been called Africa's most senseless, which is saying a lot for a continent where petty squabbles have started wars. Eritrea has had formal independence from Ethiopia for less than a decade--but it has spent the past two years in conflict with its neighbor. The fighting began in 1998, centered on a 154-sq.-mi. disputed triangle of rocky, barren land near the border town of Badme. Since then, an uneasy stalemate has been punctuated by short but fierce set-piece battles that have left tens of thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. Unlike other African wars, which...
Some people will say that Kurt Schork's death in an obscure war was senseless. And of course they are right: if only he had not made that last turn or, better yet, not been there at all. But Kurt died doing what he wanted to do. He was perhaps the finest war correspondent of his generation. Because he worked for a wire service and his byline rarely appeared in print, almost no one had heard of him. Yet everyone reading this tribute also read his articles...
...followed his wife, who was "all dolled up," to an assignation with the lover at a restaurant. To make a long story short, the cuckold beat the lover senseless with a motorcycle helmet--sending him to the hospital--and for good measure, rammed the lover's Jeep into a hydrant. The police came, lawyers were hired, Lou and his wife split--and Lou ended up here in a classroom in Brooklyn, N.Y., as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors. Though the others chuckle at the fate of Lou's victim--after all, they wouldn't be here if they...
...agreeing to a settlement, even one as colossal as this, the Voice of America neatly sidesteps any acknowledgment of legal culpability. But that doesn't mean they weren't scared senseless by the evidence piling up against them, says TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders. "The government wouldn't have offered half a billion dollars if they didn't see a good case," he says. Now that it's finally over, the Justice Department may wish the case hadn't dragged on quite so long; according to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, all legal fees from the case...