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...pulls into Concord, where bright sprays of autumn leaves frame a postcard-perfect New England town...
...After donning the requisite Obama stickers, the pair head to Penacook, a town north of Concord. Maher and Hawley form a smooth, optimistic team—when voters supported Obama but were undecided on congressional candidates, Maher reminded them that Obama would need large Democratic majorities in the House and Senate in order to push through his agenda...
...province. The fighting dissipated Wednesday and the refugees are now heading home, desperate for food and shelter. The United Nations High Commission on Refugees, the world organization's refugee agency, said it was investigating reports that rebels had destroyed camps housing some 50,000 internally displaced people in the town of Rutshuru, about 50 miles north of Goma. "Hundreds of thousands of people who have already suffered far too much are in danger and in desperate need of help," UNHCR High Commissioner Antonio Guterres said on Friday...
...position of strength - he's made it clear that government forces are no match for his men, and Goma is his for the taking. "Nkunda wants direct negotiations with the government," says Van Woudenberg, of Human Rights Watch. "And now he now holds the ultimate bargaining chip - the town of Goma...
...across the gray Baltic waters. The streets empty out as summer visitors who came for the parties and cheap beer head home. Centuries of sieges, plagues and political intrigues leave a catalogue of spine-chilling tales: screams emanating from the "Maiden's" tower on the edge of the high town where prostitutes in the Middle Ages were once imprisoned; spectral wanderings of a French mercenary who fought for the Danes and skinned his prisoners alive. There is even a 'Ghosts' St., a desolate alleyway in a corner of the town only recently lit at night...