Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Final Salute - Rocky Mountain News
... "He wasn't supposed to come home this way," she said, tightening her grip on the tags, which were linked by a necklace to her husband's wedding ring.
The women looked through the back window. Then the 23-year-old placed her hand on her pregnant belly.
"Everything that made me happy is on that plane," she said.
They watched as airport workers rolled a conveyor belt to the rear of the plane, followed by six solemn Marines.
Katherine turned from the window and closed her eyes.
"I don't want it to be dark right now. I wish it was daytime," she said. "I wish it was daytime for the rest of my life. The night is just too hard." ...
... "He wasn't supposed to come home this way," she said, tightening her grip on the tags, which were linked by a necklace to her husband's wedding ring.
The women looked through the back window. Then the 23-year-old placed her hand on her pregnant belly.
"Everything that made me happy is on that plane," she said.
They watched as airport workers rolled a conveyor belt to the rear of the plane, followed by six solemn Marines.
Katherine turned from the window and closed her eyes.
"I don't want it to be dark right now. I wish it was daytime," she said. "I wish it was daytime for the rest of my life. The night is just too hard." ...
Monday, November 07, 2005
Dyson's father was also a killer - BBC News
Paul Dyson, who admitted murdering his girlfriend Joanne Nelson, had a history of violence, and his father was also a convicted killer.
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However, it is thought Miss Nelson had been asking Dyson to tidy up more and help out around the house.
After one such argument, he lost his temper and throttled her.
Paul Dyson, who admitted murdering his girlfriend Joanne Nelson, had a history of violence, and his father was also a convicted killer.
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However, it is thought Miss Nelson had been asking Dyson to tidy up more and help out around the house.
After one such argument, he lost his temper and throttled her.
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Saturday, November 05, 2005
Strangers knew violence well - Seattle P-I
One was revered and feared on the football field, the other on the streets. Ken Hamlin and Terrell Milam didn't know each other until their worlds collided in violence.
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Hamlin made a loud impression in his first professional game. In the 2003 season opener, he unleashed a brutal hit, knocking New Orleans Saints receiver Donte' Stallworth five feet into the air, separating Stallworth from both ball and helmet. The hit was the talk of the NFL. It made all the highlight reels, and made Hamlin an instant Seahawks star.
He soon gained notoriety as an aggressive defensive back, a hard hitter who earned the nickname "The Hammer." His strut and swagger and on-field ferocity brought the team's defense a reputation they'd been sorely lacking: as intimidators.
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At his Oct. 22 funeral about 700 people -- young and old, in suits and street clothes -- turned out to remember his ability to light up a room, his devotion to his two kids and how he taught others to stand tall.
"My brother, he was a giant. He was charismatic, suave," his brother Tremaine Isabell said in an interview. "My brother was game. He could be mad. He could be mean. He could be the angel if he's on your side."
But to authorities, he was "a dangerous man" with a long criminal record. He spent nine of the past 11 years behind bars, serving time on McNeil Island and in Clallam Bay, Shelton and Walla Walla for a host of crimes: dealing cocaine in downtown Seattle, shooting a man in the face in a dispute over a dice game jackpot, firing at a police officer, illegally owning a bulletproof vest. ...
One was revered and feared on the football field, the other on the streets. Ken Hamlin and Terrell Milam didn't know each other until their worlds collided in violence.
...
Hamlin made a loud impression in his first professional game. In the 2003 season opener, he unleashed a brutal hit, knocking New Orleans Saints receiver Donte' Stallworth five feet into the air, separating Stallworth from both ball and helmet. The hit was the talk of the NFL. It made all the highlight reels, and made Hamlin an instant Seahawks star.
He soon gained notoriety as an aggressive defensive back, a hard hitter who earned the nickname "The Hammer." His strut and swagger and on-field ferocity brought the team's defense a reputation they'd been sorely lacking: as intimidators.
...
At his Oct. 22 funeral about 700 people -- young and old, in suits and street clothes -- turned out to remember his ability to light up a room, his devotion to his two kids and how he taught others to stand tall.
"My brother, he was a giant. He was charismatic, suave," his brother Tremaine Isabell said in an interview. "My brother was game. He could be mad. He could be mean. He could be the angel if he's on your side."
But to authorities, he was "a dangerous man" with a long criminal record. He spent nine of the past 11 years behind bars, serving time on McNeil Island and in Clallam Bay, Shelton and Walla Walla for a host of crimes: dealing cocaine in downtown Seattle, shooting a man in the face in a dispute over a dice game jackpot, firing at a police officer, illegally owning a bulletproof vest. ...
The Forgotten of Africa, Wasting Away in Jails Without Trial - N.Y. Times
In Malawi's high-security prisons, conditions are unbearable, confinements intolerably long, and justice scandalously uneven. He eats one meal of porridge daily. He spends 14 hours each day in a cell with 160 other men, packed on the concrete floor like sliced bacon, unable even to move. The water is dirty; the toilets foul. Disease is rife.
But the worst part may be that in the case of Mr. Sikayenera, who is accused of killing his
brother, the charges against him have not yet even reached a court. Almost certainly, they
never will. For sometime after November 1999, justice officials lost his case file. His guards know where he is. But for all Malawi's courts know, he does not exist. ...
In Malawi's high-security prisons, conditions are unbearable, confinements intolerably long, and justice scandalously uneven. He eats one meal of porridge daily. He spends 14 hours each day in a cell with 160 other men, packed on the concrete floor like sliced bacon, unable even to move. The water is dirty; the toilets foul. Disease is rife.
But the worst part may be that in the case of Mr. Sikayenera, who is accused of killing his
brother, the charges against him have not yet even reached a court. Almost certainly, they
never will. For sometime after November 1999, justice officials lost his case file. His guards know where he is. But for all Malawi's courts know, he does not exist. ...
Friday, November 04, 2005
'Les miserables': Residents in a riot-hit Paris suburb feel like second-class citizens - BBC News
... Those who live there say that when they go for a job, as soon as they give their name as "Mamadou" and say they live in Clichy, they are immediately told that the vacancy has been taken.
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The cars and shops which are burnt belong to those who have managed to find a job and save up despite all the obstacles they face.
One woman who is visiting friends and relations in Clichy said she was astonished to see the flames and hear the police sirens, saying it reminded her of home - Algeria, where a decade-long civil war has just about finished.
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And train-drivers and conductors have gone on strike after their colleagues were attacked, making it even more difficult for Clichy residents to travel to other parts of the Paris area where work can be found. ...
... Those who live there say that when they go for a job, as soon as they give their name as "Mamadou" and say they live in Clichy, they are immediately told that the vacancy has been taken.
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The cars and shops which are burnt belong to those who have managed to find a job and save up despite all the obstacles they face.
One woman who is visiting friends and relations in Clichy said she was astonished to see the flames and hear the police sirens, saying it reminded her of home - Algeria, where a decade-long civil war has just about finished.
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And train-drivers and conductors have gone on strike after their colleagues were attacked, making it even more difficult for Clichy residents to travel to other parts of the Paris area where work can be found. ...
Tweety the bird rescued by robot - BBC News
Tweety the cockatiel was stranded for two days after the building partially collapsed, undermined by a new tunnel.
No-one, including Tweety's owner Karen Bruce, was allowed into the building because police deemed it too dangerous.
But help came in the form of a remote-controlled robot, which emerged from the building carrying Tweety in her cage. ...
Tweety the cockatiel was stranded for two days after the building partially collapsed, undermined by a new tunnel.
No-one, including Tweety's owner Karen Bruce, was allowed into the building because police deemed it too dangerous.
But help came in the form of a remote-controlled robot, which emerged from the building carrying Tweety in her cage. ...
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