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...vicious murder, but the killers may escape punishment, because they crossed a border that most of the world doesn't recognize. In January 2005, Elmas Guzelyurtlu, a Turkish Cypriot businessman living near Nicosia in the southern part of Cyprus, was awoken by intruders. They took him, his wife[an error occurred while processing this directive] and 15-year-old daughter into a waiting car, drove them to a deserted highway pull-off, and shot them in the head. The murderers then fled across the "green line" that has divided Cyprus since 1974. For a moment, it seemed that justice might...
...with a range that extends from earnest ballads to really earnest ballads. This four-disc set of 43 original tracks, all of which Gill wrote or co-wrote, is downright Garthian in its ambition--and it changes everything. Each disc covers different musical terrain--bluegrass, jazz, Southern rock, country--has well-cast guests (Bonnie Raitt shines) and reveals Gill as an astonishingly dexterous guitar player and singer. A few songs miss, but more than enough hit to make this collection, priced with characteristic humility at $29.95, one of the best of the year...
...partition of Iraq is straightforward: It has already happened. The Kurds, a non-Arab people who live in the country's north, enjoy the independence they long dreamed about. The Iraqi flag does not fly in Kurdistan, which has a democratically elected government and its own army. In southern Iraq, Shi'ite religious parties have carved out theocratic fiefdoms, using militias that now number in the tens of thousands to enforce an Iranian-style Islamic rule. To the west, Iraq's Sunni provinces have become chaotic no-go zones, with Islamic insurgents controlling Anbar province while Baathists and Islamic radicals...
...puppet show at the Peabody Museum celebrating the Mexican Day of the Dead became the scene of protests denouncing the Mexican government last night. About 30 protesters—carrying black crosses and Spanish-language placards—rallied outside the show, calling attention to deaths in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where labor unions, leftist activists, and Indian groups have taken over the capital to demand the governor’s resignation. The protesters targeted the show at Harvard’s Peabody Museum because one of the event’s sponsors was the Consulate of Mexico...
...next week's elections, Southern California is still buzzing over this year's most notorious piece of hate mail. I think that's a fair characterization. Whoever sent out an obscene letter to 14,000 Spanish-surnamed voters in Southern California's Orange County doesn't strike me as the love-thy-neighbor type...