Human rights groups welcomed the long-awaited start today of Cambodia's first genocide trial, but urged the U.N.-backed tribunal to bring more Khmer Rouge leaders to justice. ...more

March 30, 2009

I listened to Carole King's "Tapestry" for the first time in a long while this past weekend. The album seemed incredibly deep and grown-up and mysterious when I had the 8-track at age 11. Now that most of its mysteries have been revealed, "Tapestry" seems sometimes spot-on ("It's Too Late"), sometimes naïve ("Where You Lead") and sometimes like bad prog rock minus the gory synthesizers (the title track). (And gory synthesizers are the best part of bad prog rock.) ...more

March 19, 2009

A Golden Opportunity The article "Hatchery Plan Rejected" by Yvette C. Hammett (Metro, March 12) is an excellent description of a new research and educational facility for this side of Florida. This was clearly seen by the favorable position taken by the Environmental Lands Acquisition and Protection Program (ELAPP) general committee. ...more

March 13, 2009

In a rambling, argumentative letter published by the war crimes tribunal on Friday, Radovan Karadzic raised "serious irregularities" about his treatment and said an international "media witch hunt" had jeopardized his chances for a fair trial. ...more

August 2, 2008

Two Dunedin, Fla., women are planning to walk to Key Largo, a trek of 300 miles, to draw attention to Darfur genocide. ...more

October 27, 2007

The government here reacted angrily Thursday to a House committee vote in Washington to condemn the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey during World War I as genocide, recalling its ambassador from Washington and threatening to withdraw its support for the Iraq war. ...more

October 12, 2007

A House panel voted Wednesday to approve calling the mass killings of Armenians that began in 1915 genocide, defying the White House, which warned that the measure would damage U.S.-Turkey relations. ...more

October 11, 2007