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...York City's East Village to fill such a need, is a clotted repository of ornate French-style furniture like rococo mirrors, mirrored vanities and tiara chandeliers. "Women are looking for more personal expression in the way they decorate than that offered by Pottery Barn," says owner Claudia Strasser. In her purview, four walls can become anything from a beach retreat to Versailles...
...arrangement is unusual, it is nonetheless a sign of the times. Slowly, reluctantly, housework, the grubby stepchild of family responsibilities, is being adopted by men and shared a bit more equitably by couples. "There are few households in which [the division of labor] can be called equal," says Susan Strasser, author of Never Done: A History of American Housework, "but it's certainly the case that men do much, much more housework than they did 30 years ago." New data from the Labor Department show that among married men and women ages 25 to 54, women who work full time...
...group of army officers, tired of fighting the RUF on behalf of a corrupt elite, seized power. But rather than fight on, the new regime of Captain Valentine Strasser hired a South African mercenary firm, Executive Outcomes, which was composed primarily of apartheid-era special forces officers who'd had plenty of experience in southern Africa's brutal wars of the '80s, to deal with the rebels. The mercenaries' price included a substantial share of the country's diamond mines. Although their 21-month sojourn in Sierra Leone cost the country $35 million, they got the job done. The rebels...
...Western powers found the mercenaries' role distasteful, and put pressure first on Strasser and then on the newly elected government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah to terminate their contract, which they did early in 1997. And that gave the rebels an opening. The RUF had never accepted the election process or its result, and with the mercenaries' withdrawal they went on a brutal rampage across the countryside, systematically chopping off the hands of civilians in gruesome mockery of Kabbah's election slogan, "The future is in your hands...
...Without the mercenaries organizing the government's defenses, the RUF wrought havoc in the countryside, and then a coup by former Strasser loyalists led by Colonel Johnny Paul Koroma overthrew Kabbah and invited the RUF into the capital for an orgy of bloodletting and looting. The West urged Nigeria to take charge, and in February 1998 the ECOMOG intervention force seized Freetown, restored Kabbah to power and arrested Foday Sankoh, who was later sentenced to death. But a year later, the RUF overwhelmed ECOMOG and recaptured the capital, freeing Sankoh and savaging the civilian population. Government control was only restored...