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News of Ethiopia's victory in Zalambessa was received with jubilation in the capital, Addis Ababa. Thousands of people gathered in the city's main square and cheered on truckloads of waving Ethiopian soldiers. At the office of the government representative, a computer screen saver read, ZALAMBESSA LIBERATED!! Chief spokeswoman Selome Taddesse popped open a bottle of Ethiopian Champagne as her staff danced to a popular song celebrating past Ethiopian victories. "I've been waiting for this day for two years," said Taddesse...
...whom helped in the canvassing effort on behalf of a tax that would add 8% to their average $42,400 annual paycheck. Starting at 8 a.m. for four consecutive Saturdays in March, the teachers and other school supporters went door to door throughout Webster Groves. Says Cathy Vespereny, a spokeswoman for the district: "Having a teacher show up at your door had a big impact...
...soldiers "may have got lost in the bush" and claimed U.N. peacekeepers were forcibly and illegally disarming R.U.F. fighters. U.N. officials say they have proof that Sankoh has been sending orders to field units to launch the attacks. "The situation is very fluid and very delicate," said a U.N. spokeswoman...
...Playboy mansion. In fact, Conger's been hanging out a lot at Hugh Hefner's house, and is now in talks to pose nude for the magazine. Conger, who lost her nursing job after the whirlwind marriage and annulment, will reportedly receive six figures for the pictorial. A spokeswoman for Playboy says Conger would not be a centerfold: centerfolds are unknown models. Conger is a celebrity, albeit an intensely private...
Instead, adult prisons tend to brutalize juveniles. They are eight times more likely to commit suicide and five times more likely to be sexually abused than offenders held in juvenile detention. "Once they get out, they tend to commit more crimes and more violent crimes," says Jenni Gainsborough, a spokeswoman for the Sentencing Project, a reform group in Washington. The system, in essence, is training career criminals. And it's doing its worst work among minorities...