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That trial resulted in a hung jury last month. Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone had promised to pursue a third trial before the plea bargain was struck...
...country. Few seemed to care whether Kibaki and his tribe would fight back. "If there's civil war, it is the Kikuyus who will lose," says Titus Odiambo, a Luo fish trader. "It's their buildings that will burn. We don't have anything at stake." Some Kikuyu gangs struck back, but tens of thousands simply fled to the central highlands, where they are the majority tribe...
...estimated 1 million missile launchers have been manufactured since the 1950s. The weapons can be bought, in some cases, for as little as $500 and over 30 years have struck 40 civilian aircraft...
...only a matter of time. A suicide bomber struck in the Pakistani city of Lahore today, ending a two-week lull since the spate of spontaneous violence that followed the December 27 assassination of former prime minister and parliamentary candidate Benazir Bhutto. At least 23 riot police were killed and another 58 police and passers-by were injured when a man detonated his vest packed with ball bearings outside Lahore's High Court, according to Police Superintendent Aftab Cheema. Police have recovered the suicide bomber's head, which was thrown some 100 meters across a busy commercial square...
...much has been made of how you choked up. I was sort of struck, though, because this is something that men now, including your husband, in politics do almost routinely. What difference do you think that made it convey to voters the sort of real person that is there beneath the... I think what it might have done is to put into the public arena what happens to me every single day on a private level. I have those encounters with people that touch me and really move me all the time. And usually it is when I am shaking...