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...were messy; we are sure only that the picture was taken sometime between 1949 and 1952.) The nominal subject is a boy turning away from the site of a car accident. At the center of the image is a bit of morbid official graffiti--a chalk outline of the victim's body that is unmistakably phallic, so that love and death are strangely and also childishly intertwined. The boy hugs himself in a gesture that may or may not be dread. His expression is soft and distracted, as though he is thinking over the hard realities of life...
...watches Slobodan Milosevic defend himself at his trial for crimes against humanity--the first ever for a head of state. The former Yugoslav President, accused of directing the genocide of 300,000 non-Serbs and driving millions from their homelands, scornfully blamed NATO and claimed he was the real victim. "It is all lies," he fumed. "The real crime was the killing of Yugoslavia and crucifying...
...both the West and Afghans sick of the fighting and bullying, his rivals have weapons and the inclination to use them. Murder is a time-honored tool of Afghan politics, but this is one crime that Karzai cannot afford to let go unpunished?or he could be its next victim...
Astunning blonde is handcuffed to the brass bed, dead and covered in blood. Her face is contorted into a permanent scream. She's Russian. It's the boiling Shanghai summer of 1926. And a glance at a family portrait in her International Settlement apartment reveals the victim is an aristocratic ingenue?a refugee from the Bolsheviks fending for herself in a city where everyone is on the run and has something to hide. "Never ask anyone in Shanghai about their past," explains the detective on the case. "Especially not a lady...
When the news hit the press, Dershowitz became the victim of mistaken identity...