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...believed to have murdered and maimed scores of innocents in new bombings. Investigators in Indonesia and the Philippines say they export their skills to other countries and terror groups and recruit more disciples for suicide attacks, all the while moving across borders, marrying, fathering children and promoting their violent ideology. Says General Made Mangku Pastika, the Indonesian police officer who led the investigation into the Bali bombings: "These people are not going to stop doing this terrorism. They are not only a threat for Bali but also for Indonesia, and maybe the Philippines also...
...leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (M.D.C.) said, "Conditions as of today do not permit the holding of a credible poll. We can't ask the people to cast their vote on June 27 when that vote will cost their lives. We will no longer participate in this violent sham of an election." Tsvangirai added that Mugabe had "declared war by saying the bullet has replaced the ballot...
...over. A lot of small towns, they've just disappeared. We're going to be next." The floods are certainly coming. And who knows when the next big earthquake will hit, since the town sits within the New Madrid Seismic Zone, one of the continent's most violent...
...particularly good moment to be a poor foreigner abroad anywhere: witness last month's violent xenophobic riots in South Africa. "When people are troubled by rising food prices, there are two easy scapegoats: foreigners and the government," Guterres says. "Xenophobia is a very worrying problem, and it's widespread: we've seen refugees murdered in Ukraine, Russia and Western Europe...
...superheroes." It's likely that a superhero movie like Watchmen or The Dark Knight couldn't be appreciated by audiences without the simpler fare that came before it. You can't deconstruct the superhero until someone has constructed him, rubber nipples and all. "Watchmen is thick and complicated and violent and political and critical of America," Snyder says. "It's huge...