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...Enters Algeria's Killing Fields Deciding it can no longer ignore the carnage on the Mediterranean's south shore that is Algeria's vicious civil war, the European Union squares its shoulders and resolutely sends in -- the fact-finders...
...tremors beneath Japan's financial institutions got so bad last week that dithering politicians finally had to act. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.) managed to commit itself to a controversial, publicly financed $80 billion scheme to shore up the banks. But that is as far as it got. If Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto does not produce a rapid consensus on exactly how the money will be used or what drastic measures the government will take to resuscitate the economy, plummeting confidence will batter the markets further...
...history: In 1839, Africans aboard a Spanish slave ship named the Amistad escaped their chains and killed most of the crew. Two months later, the ship was found drifting off the shore of Long Island, N.Y., where the mutineers were taken into custody. Former President John Quincy Adams ended up arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court the case for giving the Africans their freedom...
...described three key figures in the Irish struggle stranded together in the middle of a body of water. The two Unionist leaders, Jan Paisley and David Trimble, swam to shore. But "Gerry Adams walked on water...
...diva-like, aching with emotion. Davis will no doubt draw comparisons to acts from various genres--you can hear Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman and even Stevie Wonder churning inside her songs. But like most true talents, she eludes direct matches. The gentle waves of her music beat against the shore, recede and then wash back again...