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When 9-year-old Shannon Matthews went missing in the Northern English town of Dewsbury on Feb. 19, it had all the tragic and all-too-familiar earmarks of any missing child case. Her mother gave a tearful appeal to television cameras, police started searching nearby woodlands and ponds, and neighbors set up a fund for the family. But since Matthews was found, 24 days later, underneath a bed at a relative's address less than a mile from her home, her own family has been linked to her disappearance in a bizarre case that puts the spotlight...
...ambivalence about the German military. "The film," says Castan, "provides a fundamentally German perspective on World War I, with certain heroic elements. But [the Red Baron] is an ambiguous hero, who at the end sees war in a negative light. It shows how we look at war today. The tragic thing about Von Richthofen is that he was the poster hero of the Kaiserreich [the German empire] who, deep down, knows that war is senseless." With reporting by Stephanie Kirchner and Laura Laabs/Berlin
...this really is the beginning of the end for Mugabe, it will have significance throughout Africa, where the years since Ghana first won its freedom in 1957 have been a serial, tragic disappointment, marked by war, genocide, poverty and famine. At the root of them all was ruinous leadership. With few exceptions, Africa's postindependence leaders wrested their continent back from colonial rule only to plunder it afresh. Contemptuous of their own people and often destined for a bloody end, many contrived to make their nations poorer than they were in colonial times...
...Scala from June 16 to June 30. It starts with Alexei (played by Ukrainian Misha Didyk, hailed as "one of opera's most exciting young lyric tenors" by the BBC) gambling away diamonds belonging to his love Pauline (Latvian rising star Kristina Opolais), and things get magnificently tragic from there. www.teatroallascala.org by Mimi Murphy...
...prison system has deservedly earned us the contempt of the world [March 17]. We incarcerate a larger percentage of the population than any other nation, and the government puts away harmless souls under the guise of fighting its two "wars" on terrorism and drugs. It's a tragic irony that freedom is now a mere buzzword in a land once regarded by many as a beacon to the world. Gordon Wilson, Laguna Niguel, Calif...