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...transparency and corruption; participation and human rights; sustainable economic opportunity; and human development. Most improved over the past year, for example, was Liberia, which lost more than 250,000 people in two civil wars between 1989 and 2003, but this year rose six places on the governance ranking, to 38th. At the top of the table, meanwhile, were the perennial good performers of Africa: in order, Mauritius, the Seychelles, Cape Verde, Botswana and South Africa, whose economy is by far the largest in Africa and whose democracy is the biggest, although the country is afflicted by rampant violent crime...
...veterans, members of the silent generation, came home with their mouths shut, preferring to keep their angst private. This comprehensive history at last gives voice to their experience and their anguish. On June 25, 1950, Soviet-armed troops from the People's Democratic Republic of Korea charged across the 38th parallel in an attempt to unify the bleak peninsula by force. They quickly swept through the outmanned and outgunned South Korean army. Even the intervention of U.S. soldiers five days later, assisted by a United Nations force, could not stop the advance until it had reached the Pusan perimeter...
...This year marked the 38th LGBT pride celebration for the city, and it came on the heels of a landmark decision by the California Supreme Court to allow gay couples to marry. However, the decision may be short-lived as opponents have introduced legislation to ban gay marriage through a constitutional amendment, which voters will consider in November...
...Whether European countries undertake such discussions or not, the 38th Munitions Maintenance Group, which overseas the billeted U.S. weapons, is already under scrutiny from its own command in the wake of the report. According to the website of Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany, General Roger A. Brady, Commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, recently visited Belgium's Kleine Brogel Air Base and Volkel Air Base in the Netherlands. "I have no questions about our security," he was quoted as saying in Belgium. "I have concerns because of our mission, and I have concerns because it's human beings doing...
...late March, Burgos' family held a celebration for what would have been his 38th birthday at the Carmelite convent where Edita Burgos works. As she sat in the convent's sunlit courtyard, in front on an untouched chocolate cake, a procession of careworn middle-aged women came up to her. They were, she explained, mothers of other activists who have vanished. When the women had gone, Burgos continued: "This is not about Jonas alone. They are killing the future leaders of our country. If you kill these people, who will be left...