Monthly Archives: July 2006

El Salvador Trip: 'Many were afraid of the big, black box that I had around my neck…'

SportsShooter: Months after my trip to El Salvador with Give a Kid a Backpack Foundation, images still keep me awake at night. I can’t get rid of the passionate embrace those kids gave me on the last day. I can … Continue reading

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Regime Change

TommyKane: Stencil Work. Here.

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War’s Chaos Steals Congo’s Young by the Millions

NYT: A few moments later, Amuri’s eyes rolled back in his head, his chest stilled and he was dead. “Bring something for us to wrap the boy,” a nurse called out. His mother, Maria Cheusi, realized that her son’s life … Continue reading

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Gibson's Anti-Semitic Tirade — Alleged Cover Up

TMZ, via WMFU’s Beware the Blog: Once inside the car, a source directly connected with the case says Mel Gibson began banging himself against the seat. The report says Gibson told the deputy, “You mother f****r. I’m going to f*** … Continue reading

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Right showing left the way on radical Islam

Guardian: Meanwhile, the Foreign Office seems determined to press ahead with courting radical Islamists. Just this month, the British government paid for Yusuf al-Qaradawi to attend a conference in Turkey to discuss the future of European Islam. At home, it … Continue reading

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Jury Convicts 4 White-Supremacists

From SF Chronicle: A jury convicted four leaders of a white-supremacist prison gang Friday on charges they used murder and intimidation to protect their drug-dealing operations behind bars. The trial is part of one of the largest federal capital cases, … Continue reading

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CON MAN’s Confession

From the Daily Sun, Nigeria’s King of the Tabloids: The young man, who was arrested for impersonating the Super Falcon’s captain, Miss Perpetua Nkwocha, has revealed that he duped people because he wanted to see his siblings through secondary school. … Continue reading

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Court slams Russia over Chechen

From the BBC: Television journalists were travelling with Russian forces who captured a group of rebel fighters sheltering in the village of Alkhan-Kala. Mr Yandiyev, dressed in camouflage, can be seen in the footage standing injured near a bus. He … Continue reading

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Lifting the Cover of the Hezbollah PR Effort

From CJR: Anderson Cooper followed up this past Monday with a similar report, telling viewers that “we found ourselves with other foreign reporters taken on a guided tour by Hezbollah … They only allowed us to videotape certain streets, certain … Continue reading

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Photographers Face Danger, Limited Mobility in Lebanon

From PDN: Getty Images photographer Spencer Platt says photographers in Beirut have been scrambling to the scene of explosions whenever they hear them, but doing so isn’t easy because Hezbollah is keeping photographers at arms length. “They’re very suspicious of … Continue reading

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Photographer Corey Arnold

Corey Arnold, 30, is a Freelance Photographer and Alaska Crab Fisherman. During October, January, and February you will find him working and photographing aboard the f/v Rollo in the Bering Sea. The rest of the year he lives in Norway … Continue reading

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Rwanda’s Shadow, From Darfur to Congo

From the New York Times: The crisis in Darfur, long neglected, finally burst into the world’s consciousness. Congo remains largely forgotten. It is hard to understand why. Four million people have died in Congo since 1998, half of them children … Continue reading

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Daddy, when will doctors return my leg, cries boy (4), who lost limb in autocrash

From the Daily Sun, Nigeria’s King of the Tabloids: Too young to fathom out what actually occurred to him, Ndubuisi who had passed out during the incident came around to ask the grim question: What happened to my leg? Up … Continue reading

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