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  • Wrong sport

    Tampa Bay Rays pitcher James Shields, right, takes a swing at Boston’s Coco Crisp after Crisp was hit by a pitch and charged the mound in the second inning. (Photo by MICHAEL DWYER / AP / June 5, 2008) Boston Red Sox, Tampa Bay Rays fight, Tribune wire reports, June 6, 2008 The Boston Red…

  • Rwandan Leaders vow to punish ‘genocide’

    by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Wednesday, August 3, 1994 KIGALI, Rwanda – Leaders of this war-ravaged nation yesterday said they will execute those responsible for the slaughter of up to 500,000 Rwandans in ethnic fighting. “Those who willingly carried out genocide deserve no less than the death penalty,” Rwanda’s President Pasteur…

  • Firefox

    Walter S. Mossberg WALTER S. MOSSBERG’s Personal Technology column from the Wall Street Journal. Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Is the Best Browser For Web — For Now, June 5, 2008 If you buy a new Windows Vista PC, it comes with a decent built-in Web browser, Internet Explorer 7. If you buy a new Macintosh computer,…

  • Envoy’s Search for Justice Shows Rwanda’s Dark Side

     by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Sunday, August 7, 1994 KIGALI, Rwanda–Sylvestre Kamali finally broke down. Imprisoned for 21 days, he was tired, hurting and badly in need of a bath. A career diplomat, he has served his country in all branches, including terms as vice president of the Supreme Court and…

  • A way forward . . .

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  • Obama in St. Paul

    TRANSCRIPT The following is a transcript of Senator Barack Obama’s speech to supporters on the last night of voting in the primary campaign, as provided by CQ Transcriptions. SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: Sixteen months have passed since we first stood together on the steps of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. Thousands of miles have…

  • Rwanda: Critical, Stabilizing

    by MICHAEL 0. ALLEN in Rwanda and GENE MUSTAIN in New York, Daily News Staff Writers KIGALI, Rwanda–The heartbeat of this nearly terminal country thumped a little louder yesterday. The war ravaged capital city, as most of the country has little portable water, few working phones or toilets and hardly any electricity–but people were beginning…

  • INGREDIENTS FOR GENOCIDE: Burundi seems headed for same fate as Rwanda

    by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer BUJUMBURA, Burundi–The driver’s father was a Hutu, but his mother was a Tutsi, and that ethnic mix is a recipe for murder in this country–where all the ingredients of a Rwandan-like bloodbath are beginning to boil. Afraid he was a marked man, Selemani Hakizimana drove fast and…

  • Tony's Nobel grovel

    I don’t remember who started it, or when it started, so let’s blame it on Jimmy Carter. The former president rehabilitated his public service record by becoming a world do-gooder in chief. He built homes for the homeless, cured elections, and generally did whatever he could to expunge from the public mind, his four years…

  • Gore Vidal, unbowed

    Gore Vidal: Literary feuds, his ‘vicious’ mother and rumours of a secret love child He slept with Kerouac, hung out with Jackie O and feuded with Mailer. He’s the last surviving giant of American literature’s golden age. So why is Gore Vidal still so sensitive about his reputation? Interview by Robert Chalmers, Sunday, 25 May…