The late Claud Cockburn claimed that when he was a sub-editor at the London

Times, he won a competition among his colleagues for the most boring

headline ever to make it into the pages of that august Paper of Record. The

winning headline was: SMALL EARTHQUAKE IN CHILE–NOT MANY DEAD. I was

thinking about that this morning, reading the Africa news. Here

is a clip from the BBC

about a small war that’s been going on in the north-east Congo this last 5

years. More than two million people have died. There has just been a

massacre of “hundreds of civilians.” A major battle seems to be going on…

It’s OK, though: the U.N. is sending a team to “investigate.” Thank

goodness for the U.N.!