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...gardens of the presidential palace in Kigali, a chunk of fuselage lies in an ornamental pool. Passenger seats litter the once manicured lawn. A tail wing juts through banana leaves. This is ground zero of Rwanda's carnage, where the bloodletting that has taken more than 200,000 lives had its catalyst. On a quiet evening two months ago, a French-made Mystere-Falcon carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and the President of Burundi from peace talks in Tanzania was hit by rocket fire and slammed into the earth just outside the compound, killing all 10 on board...
...bank to avoid being charged each time she used the ATM system. Enough was enough. Earlier this year she took her money to a credit union where, for $2.50 a month, she can write as many checks as she wants -- even draw down her balance to zero. "I probably had $25 taken out every month at Chemical," she recalls, "before I finally said, 'This is insane. What am I doing...
...received zero information," says Childs, the co-chief steward of the College's dining hall workers. "We demanded negotiations and they didn't give us any. The only thing I got was a letter saying they have decided what...
...reject the notion that there is an acceptable level of corruption. As a society, we must be committed to a policy of zero tolerance when it comes to official misconduct. Otherwise, its corrosive effort will undermine the very principle upon which this nation stands...
Jackie Kennedy went to Milwaukee when Senator John Kennedy announced for the crucial Wisconsin primary in the winter of 1960, and the temperature was near zero. She sat in a jammed and tacky hotel hall, stiff-backed in a short- sleeved designer sheath with delicate leather gloves up to her elbows, eyes wide and smile frozen. A New York and Washington thoroughbred in the land of < parkas and beer. She never yielded...