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Clashes between the police and the Orange Democratic Movement (O.D.M.) were largely confined to scuffles and tear gas. But on the outskirts, the tribal violence that has raged in Kenya for five days claimed scores more victims. A mob from the Luo tribe rampaging through the township of Mathare stoned one unidentified man to death before stealing his shoes, hacked another man from the Kikuyu tribe about the head with a machete and set a gas station on fire, gutting the buildings, pumps and five vehicles. By the end of the day, the toll had risen from just more than...
...Africa's biggest slum, lines are being drawn. Morris Otieno, a trader and businessman, won't say if he is one of the Luo tribesmen in the township of Kibera, on the southwest edge of Nairobi, who have torched shops, battled riot police and dragged rival Kikuyu tribe members into the street to kill them. But he will say that the Kikuyu must go. "We have to move them away from our areas," he says...
...letter of recommendation and recently agreed to act as his academic adviser. He also confessed to fabricating the assault on himself. He inflicted his own wounds, pummeling himself on the face, scraping his head against a brick wall and breaking a glass bottle over his head. Princeton Township Detective Sergeant Ernie Silagyi, who is investigating the case, cites "underlying personal reasons." But Nava's story also points to similar incidents - mostly attached to heated political debates or controversies - at other campuses...
...Beethoven was one-sixteenth black” while introducing the musicians who will be performing a selection from the composer’s oeuvre. He is caught in the gaze of a framed portrait of his great-grandfather, a diamond prospector. He then sets off for a black township on a genealogical quest for the long-lost cousins he hypothesizes he must have, descendants of the illicit sexual liaisons that often transpired between prospectors and the black washerwoman who worked in the mining camps. A series of hastily strung-together clauses ensues, and the story abruptly terminates in Morris?...
BAINBRIDGE TOWNSHIP, OHIO First frost of the fall hits the East and Midwest...