Presumption of funniness is not exactly a capital offense. But it’s a performer’s crime nevertheless, a rookie sort of miscue that helps to sink Folger Theatre’ s ill-conceived spaghetti-western version of “The Taming of the Shrew.” Read full article > >
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Who’s the shrew? At Folger, it’s a tossup.
Malawi’s new President Joyce Banda says she does not want Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, accused of war crimes, to attend a summit in July.
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New Malawi leader snubs Bashir
In a bar as busy as the Good Guys Club, with its nude dancing, the employees didn’t have time to start and finish a conversation all at once. A thread would unspool over hours, days. This one had begun a few days ago. Read full article > >
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At D.C.’s Good Guys nightclub, a crime of vengeance and a victim’s brave struggle
The Crimestoppers charity offers a reward of up to £10,000 for information about the murder of Coleraine pensioner Bertie Acheson.
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Reward follows pensioner murder
The ominous signs are tacked on both sides of the opening in the black chain-link fence, warning travelers who venture out of the West Hyattsville Metro station that a rapist — or rapists — has been terrorizing the trails that lie ahead. Read full article > >
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Mount Ranier-Hyattsville area shaken by attacks, rapes on or near trails
NEWTOWN, Conn. — J. David Goldin, an eccentric 69-year-old with a handlebar mustache and an obsession with radio, was trolling eBay one evening in September 2010, looking for old radios and recordings, when he spotted an item that piqued his interest: the master copy of a broadcast radio interview with baseball legend Babe Ruth as he hunted for quail and pheasants on a crisp morning in 1937. Read full article > >
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In National Archives thefts, a radio detective gets his man
Federal prosecutors were dealt a serious blow in the perjury trial of baseball legend Roger Clemens on Wednesday when a key witness, Andy Pettitte, admitted that he might have misunderstood his close friend admit he took performance-enhancing drugs in 1999 or 2000. Read full article > >
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Department of Justice investigating university.
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80 Rapes Alleged at Montana Campus
As international envoy Kofi Annan negotiated a cease-fire in Syria, government forces raided opposition strongholds, killing and detaining residents in attacks amounting to war crimes, a rights group said Wednesday.
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Rights group reveals Syria ‘war crimes’
After a man was killed and two other people injured in separate attacks in the District’s Petworth neighborhood this week — each victim apparently chosen at random and struck on the head with a weapon — police saturated the area Thursday night with officers in plainclothes and unmarked cars. They feared a serial assailant was at large. Read full article > >
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Faces possible hate crime charges.
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Detroit Tigers Outfielder Arrested
Two men are jailed for seven years each after 114 burglaries across Wales and England, which a judge calls “serious, organised gang crime”.
The soldiers of Charles Taylor, who on Thursday was found guilty of war crimes, ripped apart the lives of a reporter’s family members in the 1990s.
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Recalling Horrors in Liberia Wrought by Taylor
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