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...commended the departing secretary for "innovative efforts," and his department flacks put out a statement that said he "transformed the VA health care system to meet the unique medical requirements" of returning troops. And not all of the VA's critics placed direct blame on Nicholson. "He was a victim of real misplaced priorities of this Administration," said Rep. Bob Filner, a California Democrat who heads the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. "Like every aspect of the war, they didn't plan for the veterans." His defenders point out that the VA, which cares for 5.8 million former military personnel...
...Akuma, "[the rebels] should also come back peacefully so that we can finally leave these camps." Many of the displaced believe that their tormentors should be put through the traditional justice of the Acholi people - a ritual called mato oput that requires a murderer to face relatives of the victim and admit his crime, leading to both parties drinking a bitter brew as an act of reconciliation...
...this point, after two weeks missing, there’s the possibility that she’s the victim of foul play,” Orange County Sheriff’s Department Spokesman Jim Amormino told The Register late last week. “It’s believed he used false pictures over the Internet to disguise himself and cover his history as a sex offender...
...While ordinary folk rarely encounter gang members or fall victim to gang violence, the gangs' reputation for brutality is well deserved. Many New Zealanders remember dreadful crimes that prompted tougher laws. In 1988, a 19-year-old woman was kidnapped and taken to a Mongrel Mob convention in Auckland, where she was raped by at least 15 men, beaten, urinated on, covered in petrol and photographed over a nine-hour period before she escaped. In 1996, police witness Christopher Crean, who had testified against Black Power members who'd taken part in a violent brawl, was murdered in front...
...teenage boys are skirmishing over a 1-sq.-km patch of turf in south Auckland. In Electra Place, officers Ott and Stevenson find a bare-chested youth holding a blood-soaked cloth to a 3-cm slash above one eye; his friend is screaming about a gang attack. The victim says the knife wielder has run off into a house a few doors down the street. "The guy with the knife could still be inside," says Stevenson as the officers wait for backup. Dogs are barking behind the house as though the offenders are fleeing over the back fence...