Hard not to laugh, for a brief second, when you’re told about Claymore landmines.
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Archive for June, 2008
War without end
McCain’s Delicate Immigration Dance
Back on the campaign trail late last year, amid snow drifts and ice storms, candidate Tom Tancredo spoke often about the possibility of defecting from the Republican Party if its eventual nominee failed to meet his benchmarks of conservatism, most importantly a zero-tolerance policy for undocumented immigrants.
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Attention Goes a Long Way at a School, Small by Design
They sighed with relief when the college applications were completed, and celebrated when the acceptance letters poured in.
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Inauguration Sunday in Harare
Some details, such as timing and description of movements, in the following are altered for the safety of NEWSWEEK’s reporter.
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Bill Gates: PC Genius, Internet Fool
Bill Gates, who for years was the richest man in the world, is also one of the smartest.
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A French Village Revives the Franc, and Hopes It Will Return the Favor
OLLOBRIÈRES, France — Christine Amrane says it is mostly about profit, not just protest and nostalgia. This village deep in Provence has decided to accept the French franc in everyday commerce, along with the euro, and the colorful old bills adorned with French heroes and writers have people thinking.
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Mugabe sworn in after disputed Zimbabwean election
HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) — President Robert Mugabe was sworn in Sunday after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission declared he overwhelmingly won the country’s disputed runoff election.
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Civilian Victims in Mexico’s Drug War
is past March, Brenda Maldonado was locking up her store in this ramshackle mountain community when machine gun fire rattled out from a nearby military checkpoint, forcing her to dive for cover.
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Hidden Gardens of Paris
NEXT to the Palais de la Découverte, just off the Champs-Élysées, is a flight-of-fancy sculpture of the 19th-century poet Alfred de Musset daydreaming about his former lovers.
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Female Agents
Four Frenchwomen put up a fine resistance in this Second World War tale. And despite every known war movie cliche, it’s still an exciting ride
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Not In This Africa
here was a time when a stolen election in an African state, with a few hundred dead, would hardly have raised eyebrows—let alone been condemned by leaders of neighboring countries. In the days of Zaire’s Mobutu Sese Seko and Uganda’s Idi Amin, mass murder was more the rule than the exception; so it was in Rwanda 14 years ago, and, more recently, in Congo and Sudan. Throughout it all, most African leaders kept carefully quiet, loath to publicly criticize their colleagues.
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‘I like the way I look. I celebrate that. I don’t make excuses for it’
Charlize Theron hasn’t let her astonishing beauty stand in her way. From serial killers to dysfunctional mothers, Carole Cadwalladr meets a Hollywood pin-up happy to play ugly
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One Reason Gas Is Emptying Your Wallet: Nigeria
When armed rebels from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta attacked an enormous oil facility 75 miles off the swampy West African coast on June 19, traveling hours by speedboat under cover of darkness and kidnapping an oil worker, their brazen assault underlined the perhaps underappreciated dependence of the United States — and the world — on oil from Nigeria.
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Can Bill Gates head into the shadows?
The Microsoft co-founder, who more than anyone else is credited with introducing computers into homes and offices worldwide, clocks off from his final day at the office Friday after 33 years.
Gates, who Fortune magazine reports has an estimated net worth of $50 billion, formed what would eventually become Microsoft with Paul Allen, a friend from school, in New Mexico in 1975.
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Muskrats blamed for levee breach on Mississippi
Sheriff’s deputies alerted residents to evacuate, yelling “get out, the levee broke” as they went door-to-door in the affected areas, according to an Associated Press report.
Winfield resident Debbie Halcomb, 52, heard warning sirens and knew that her worst fears were realized, the AP reported.
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Spain hails virtuoso performance
“Spain play a symphony to Europe… the dream is a reality”, said Marca, singling out midfielder Cesc Fabregas for special praise. “If a month ago we had said that a Spanish orchestra would triumph in the land of music, more than a few would have said we were crazy.”
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Zimbabweans braced for post-vote violence
Many voters expressed fear of government retaliation if they did not take part in the vote to extend President Robert Mugabe’s rule. Still, relatively low turnout was reported.
Some voters told CNN they were required to write down the serial numbers on their ballots and report those numbers to Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party.
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Mandela celebrates with Will Smith, 46,664 others
LONDON, England (CNN) — Hollywood star Will Smith led a crowd of 46,664 in a chorus of “Happy Birthday” to Nelson Mandela on Friday at a party for the South African prisoner, president and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Smith introduced Mandela to the London crowd celebrating Mandela’s life with the words “The one, the only, the birthday boy, Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandelaaaaaaaaaa.”
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Five best … weird festivals
The Glastonbury festival stomps defiantly into action this weekend, but the odd druid, “chanting dome” and James Blunt aside, you can rest assured that the truly weird festival action is happening elsewhere.
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Q&A: 90 Minutes With Miyamoto, Nintendo’s Master of Amusement
NEW YORK — Shigeru Miyamoto is, still, one of the most fascinating people in videogames.
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