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...Readers will still have to be open-minded. In the translated version of Shonen Jump, staple Japanese onomatopoeias like ZA!, DON! and GAGII! have generally been replaced with more familiar sounds such as WHOOOSH! and BONK! But some, like KIIIIN! (the sound of a superhero hurtling through the air), haven't been changed. To get readers up to speed, an editorial team (comprised mostly of American 20-something manga enthusiasts) assembles pages of interviews with cartoonists, background information on characters and story lines, and explanations of the comics' Japanese cultural aspects. The American comic reads in Japanese fashion?right...
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO After 2.5 Million Killed, Hope of Peace Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly known as Zaïre) signed an agreement to end the four-year war that has killed about 2.5 million people and effectively divided one of Africa's biggest countries in two. The agreement, signed in South Africa, requires Rwanda to withdraw its troops from eastern Congo within three months. In return the Congolese government in Kinshasa would disarm the Hutu responsible for the 1994 genocide of Tutsi tribespeople in Rwanda and send their leaders for trial before...
...from highbrow. Its news programming was generally acknowledged to be the best on Russian TV, but it boosted ratings dramatically with its reality TV show Za Steklom (Behind the Glass), which sailed close to pornography as it followed the adventures of a group of attractive young people sharing an apartment - and backrubs and showers. This irritated the Orthodox Church, but the Kremlin was more angered by TV-6's majority owner, Boris Berezovsky, a business baron during the Yeltsin era, an early Putin booster and now the President's exiled enemy. The animosity between Putin and Berezovsky is well-known...
...Mezhennaya's case is only one in a series of crackdowns on the regional press. In January police searched the offices of Den Za Dnem, a Volgograd weekly critical of Governor Nikolai Maksyuta. In February police raided Novaya Gazeta, a weekly in Ryazan which had criticized Regional Governor Vyacheslav Lyubimov in its coverage of his election campaign. In March the regional prosecutor's office in Belgorod pressed charges against Olga Kitova, a correspondent for the local daily Belgorodskaya Pravda who questioned alleged financial machinations by the regional legislature. Though a member of the legislature herself, Kitova was detained and beaten...
...their troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where they back rebel movements inside the country. Rwanda pulled out more than 2,000 troops while Uganda began the withdrawal of 1,500. The pullbacks are the most significant step toward peace since war broke out in the former Za?re in 1998. A peace accord signed in 1999 was broken almost immediately...