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RESPOND II CD RELEASE SHOW. Deb Talan, Jennifer Kimball, Merrie Amsterburg and Bourbon Princess with Monique Ortiz get together to perform at Club Passim on Thursday for the release of Respond II, a CD compilation benefiting families and victims of domestic violence. The CD is a follow up to the highly acclaimed Respond, and includes contributions from Deb Talan and Bourbon Princess. Thursday, April 24 at 8 p.m. Tickets $15 regular, $13 for members, available at Club Passim, 47 Palmer...
General Yusuf Talan was sipping coffee at a popular Mogadishu cafe last fall when the four gunmen approached him. They demanded he get in their waiting car, and when he refused, one of the men raised a G-3 assault rifle to his shoulder and pumped nine bullets into the general's head and chest. Talan had recently been given the job of disarming the thousands of militiamen who still control large swaths of this Horn of Africa country. The bullets that killed him were a blunt message from the warlords to Somalia's new government: You control nothing; take...
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