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...Even the old man next to me, who was a child during World War II and has lived his life aware that bearing the weight of German history is serious business, takes off his glasses and rubs tears of laughter from his eyes. "Why shouldn't we be able to see this in Berlin? It's been shown everywhere else in the world," he says...
...During the Vietnam War, he piloted more than 100 sorties in South Asia as a Naval aviator...
When hundreds of bodies suddenly began turning up in São Paulo in May 2006, many people suspected a secret war had taken place. There had been a very public initial skirmish when members of a gang known as the PCC had spent two days and nights terrorizing South America's biggest city, killing at least 33 law-enforcement officers and transforming São Paulo into a ghost town where 20 million people cowered behind their locked doors and barred windows. But more fresh corpses began turning up in the six days after the police had restored order...
...Susi a pawn in a larger war? Or is she really depressed? "If she's really eating excrement, if she's displaying rocking behavior, that would be abnormal for an adult elephant in the wild," says Dr. Joyce Poole, director of the conservation group Elephant Voices. At the behest of Libera and FAADA, Poole plans to travel to Barcelona to examine Susi's behavior for herself. But based on her studies of elephants in Africa, she admits to a certain bias. "Personally, I don't think we should have elephants in city zoos," Poole says. "Elephants in the wild...
...after the LTTE leadership," Lakshman Hulugalle, director-general of the Defense Ministry's Media Centre for National Security told TIME. "With the leadership wiped out, this organization cannot re-emerge." Army Commander Lieutenant Sareth Fonseka also said that Prabhakaran's death marked the end of the LTTE-led separatist war. "We have rid the country of terrorism," he told national television soon after the official announcement of Prabhakaran's death aired. (Read "The Tigers' Last Days...