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...nice power-sharing agreement between the warring parties. More commonly, foreign intervention ends a civil war by helping one side defeat the other. That was essentially what happened in the Balkans in the 1990s, when NATO finally intervened against the Serbs. The British ended the civil war in Sierra Leone by beating the rebels. Something similar just happened in Somalia...
...sectarian vengeance. Of course, the death penalty is prohibited in U.N. tribunals - a point often raised by defenders of the Iraqi courts. They argue that war criminals should face the toughest penalties allowed by their respective country's legal systems. But war criminals from the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone convicted by U.N. tribunals were spared, even though the death penalty remains on the books in both Rwanda and Sierra Leone and was legal in Serbia until 2002. Is anyone prepared to argue that those war-ravaged countries would somehow be more peaceful, stable and reconciled had they...
...Zimbabwe who's on the trail of a rock the size of Kilimanjaro. Blood Diamond, the fitfully engrossing drama from director Edward Zwick (Glory, The Last Samurai), links Danny with the diamond's discoverer, Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou, ever noble), whose family has been seized in the brutal 1990s Sierra Leone civil war and sent to a refugee camp...
...also become a member of the Disabled Veterans Auxiliary. The other activities that fill her datebook include serving on the board of the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity, teaching cooking to young children at a group home and taking courses at the community college near her home in Sierra Vista, Ariz. "James gave so much of himself to me," she says. "Now I feel obligated to give to others...
...Treasure of The Sierra Madre. I love that movie, wow. It really is a masterpiece. I think it's Bogart's best role...