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- Growing sense of disquiet
- Hostages ordered killed, Colombia official says
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Growing sense of disquiet
Times Online – Jul 29, 2007
Millwall have yet to win asingle game and last week the first team lost 2-0 to Ebbsfleet from theNorth Kent Doug and Dinsdale Piranha Loan Shark League. There were all sortsof excuses – trying a new formation, loads of substitutes, traditionallynever play well when in an estuarial setting – but that familiar cloud ofgloom is beginning to settle once again. But maybe we’ll beat Sierra Leone this week, in a game arranged to commemoratethe 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. None of my mates is goingto the match – either because they quite approve of slavery and wish westill had it, or they resent the opportunistic politicisation of a simplefootball game and doubtless the hideous PC rigmarole that will accompany theevent. Ribbons, bracelets, solidarity and cant. It does seem a little harsh, both on Millwall’s supporters – who in generalare unaccustomed to saying sorry at the best of times, especially when it’snot their fault – and indeed the Sierra Leonians, who may feel a littlepatronised. Maybe Sierra Leone should go the whole hog and play the game in leg ironswhile being whipped, as a symbolic gesture…
Ribbons, bracelets, solidarity and cant. It does seem a little harsh, both on Millwall’s supporters – who in generalare unaccustomed to saying sorry at the best of times, especially when it’snot their fault – and indeed the Sierra Leonians, who may feel a littlepatronised. Maybe Sierra Leone should go the whole hog and play the game in leg ironswhile being whipped, as a symbolic gesture. At least that way we might sneaka draw. Hugh Mcllvanney is away.
Hostages ordered killed, Colombia official says
Seattle Times – Jul 29, 2007
More than 120 troops have been killed since fighting erupted May 20. AlsoDiamond trade resumes: The Liberian government said Saturday it had lifted a six-year moratorium on the diamond trade, put in place after former President Charles Taylor was accused of using “blood diamonds” to fuel civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone. Nuclear inspectors arrive: Another group of inspectors from the United Nations has arrived in North Korea to observe the second phase of Pyongyang’s obligation to wrap up its nuclear program, Xinhua news agency reported Saturday. Seattle Times news services Copyright © 2007 The Seattle Times Company More nation & world headlines.
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San Diego Union Tribune – Jul 29, 2007
A former child soldier from Sierra Leone describes his drug-crazed killing spree and his return to humanity. THE ASSAULT ON REASON by Al Gore, Penguin Press, $25. How the Bush administration has degraded the political environment through secrecy, fear, and the rejection of fact-based reasoning.
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Sarasota Herald-Tribune – Jul 29, 2007
A LONG WAY GONE, by Ishmael Beah. ) A former child soldier from Sierra Leone describes his drug-crazed killing spree and his return to humanity. THE ASSAULT ON REASON, by Al Gore. (Penguin Press, $25.