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...involvement in the 1998 bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa. RELEASED. TANAK JIGME SANGPO, 76, Tibetan teacher who spent the past 19 years in jail on charges of "counterrevolutionary incitement" for condemning the Chinese occupation of his homeland, on medical parole; from Drapchi Prison in Lhasa. RELEASED. PETA THORNYCROFT, 57, correspondent for Britain's Daily Telegraph who was detained by authorities in Zimbabwe under a security act for publishing false information; by order of a high court in Harare. RESIGNED. RICK BELLUZZO, president and chief operating officer of Microsoft Corp., after serving little more than a year...
Only once in The Old Century does war overshadow Sassoon's mellow recollections of his Kent childhood, his nurses, tutors, governesses, Thornycroft relatives, boys' schools. Reminded while revisiting his old village of his brother Hamo, killed at Gallipoli, he muses bitterly over the present "halfhearted renouncement of war," the "heavily armed pursuit of peace." But he quickly decides that "I must give up feeling bad-tempered about it, or I should be ruining my afternoon." For the rest, the War's corpses are peacefully buried. So is his onetime vow to write to "scandalize the jolly...
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