In a Corrupt World Where the Violent Bear It Away
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The films of Richard Fleischer are those of an unself-conscious American realist.
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Forces of war, nature, economic crisis and regional tension converge with a vengeance on populace.
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Rarely in Africa has the human cost of war and greed been clearer than in this dingy, broken, sweltering corner of hell. Yet nowhere has the expectation of change created so much hope.
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What goes around, comes around with a vengeance.
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SHANGHAI -- The savage beating death of a reporter has shone a rare light on the corrupt, money-driven underbelly of Chinese journalism, where many reporters take bribes to write good news and extort companies to suppress their dirty laundry.
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After a wave of ethnic violence, Kenya has been in the process of segregating itself.
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According to the Red Cross, most of the killings have been in the turbulent Rift Valley, where gangs from opposing ethnic groups have fought fiercel.
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For centuries, it has been one of humanity's most graphic, gruesome ways to end a life: sever the head, home to thoughts, dreams and that most personal of features &#151; the face. Decapitation by hand, with sword or knife, smacks of ugly yesterdays &#151; things the West prefers to think it has left behind.
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By Andrei Khalip RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - The murder of a soccerplayer and kidnapping of the mother of another have shown thatnot even Brazil's pride and joy -- soccer -- is immune from theviolent crime that sweeps over cities.
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In the 1975 film "Rollerball," the corporate world state of some futuristic society controls the bloodlust of its sterile populace through the brutal, sporting violence of a game. Being publicly educated and stuff, I never fully understood this.
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World Bank president Paul D. WolfowitzÂs fight against corruption in poor countries has drawn criticism for its aggressive approach.
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DEMIDYV, Ukraine -- Nikolai maneuvered his bike through the ruts in a dirt road and shook his head in disgust. ''Can you call this a civilized country with roads like this?&quot; he said after swerving to avoid a deep mud puddle.
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The rule of Suharto, who was driven from office in 1998, was one of the 20th centuryâs most brutal and corrupt.
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The murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a young Muslim of Moroccan descent has shaken Holland to its very foundations. To most people, including the Dutch, the killing and its violent
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In the gloomy shade deep in Africa's rain forest, the noontime silence was pierced by the whine of a far-off chain saw. It was the sound of destruction, echoed from wood to wood, continent to continent, in the tropical belt that circles the globe.
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As the country prepares for local elections on Sunday, many are finding that the murder and intimidation that once defined politics here are diminishing.
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With Maoist attacks on the rise in Nepal, authorities apprehend large-scale displacement of people. In fact, a good indicator of this âflight of passageâ is a newspaper report on Iraq-bound Nepalese that