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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...September 1988, British tourist Julie Ward, 28, went missing during a trip to Kenya's Masai Mara game reserve. Days later her father, British businessman John Ward, came across her severed leg in the dusty grass of the Kenyan savannah, confirming his worst fears about her fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Brits Stop Kenya Murder Probe? | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

...case remains officially unsolved. But Ward, a self-made businessman, has been on a mission ever since to keep the investigation into Julie's murder alive. He has visited the crime scene more than 100 times, and spent nearly $4 million of his own money searching for clues. Ward has always maintained that British authorities have actively thwarted his investigations because they placed smooth relations with the Kenyan government above the search for justice. Beyond a few sympathetic newspaper profiles, however, his allegations have been largely dismissed as the obsessions of a grief-stricken father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Brits Stop Kenya Murder Probe? | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

...report, undertaken by the Lincolnshire Police on behalf of Scotland Yard and obtained by TIME, accuses the FCO and High Commission of "inconsistency and contradictions, falsehoods and downright lies," and concludes that "it is this that has not surprisingly led to John Ward believing that there was an active conspiracy to prevent him from identifying his daughter's killers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Brits Stop Kenya Murder Probe? | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

...withhold NATO membership from Eastern Europe, and to leave the Kosovars to their fate, would have exposed as hypocrites those who had spent the Cold War taking the high moral ground against the Soviet Union. But sometimes, we have just been reminded, good intentions are not enough to ward off tragedy. That's one reason why it's always worth keeping a volume of Yeats' poetry close at hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cost of NATO's Good Intentions | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

Both Martin and Williams called for students to make donations to national organizations like Salvation Army and the American Red Cross, as well as local New Orleans organizations like the Lower Ninth Ward Homeowners Association and the Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Students Tell of Gustav Evacuations | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

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