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What always seems to wreck Africa's hopes is that so few of its strongmen are really interested in peace. Foday Sankoh and his Revolutionary United Front rampaged across Sierra Leone for nearly a decade, hacking the limbs off countless civilians in a blood-soaked quest for power. Sick of the slaughter, members of the international community brokered a peace pact that last July ultimately gave the rebels amnesty, a share in government power and a piece of the country's diamond wealth. It apparently wasn't enough, so violence has erupted again in poor, shattered Sierra Leone. And this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peacekeepers in Peril | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

...burdens of folks like the Trapps? The family has filed for bankruptcy, and Congress wants to make it a lot more difficult for other Americans to do the same, a change that would hit especially hard at women. And poor people. And the recently jobless. And the sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Money & Politics: Who Gets Hurt?: Soaked By Congress | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

...that a humanist concerns himself with too often. I guess it would be near water. But not just any water-it would have to be on a Great Lake. I can't stand salt water. It takes like chicken soup. You live out east, huh? Don't you get sick of the salt water...

Author: By Christopher R. Blazejewski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: VONNEGUT UNBOUND | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

...possible that anyone--let alone the Jefferson County Attorney's Office--can be selling a video showing scenes from the Columbine massacre complete with a music score? Isn't that sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ask Dr. Notebook | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

...Excuse me, I have a cold. But don't worry. I won't get you sick. It sounds worse than...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Woody Allen, Point Blank | 5/5/2000 | See Source »

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