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Chinese nationals in Pakistan are in as much danger as other foreigners. In the aftermath of a tentative cease-fire between Pakistan and Taliban radicals in the beleaguered Swat Valley, militants there released Long Xiaowei, a Chinese engineer abducted six months ago - an incident that drew unusually forceful language from Beijing...
...cause of death. The district attorney’s office suspects no foul play at this time, as the individual had a history of mental illness. “The deceased had tried to commit suicide in a similar manner before,” Wark said. In the aftermath of the discovery, police sent out a teletype to other police departments in the area, and the Waltham Police Department responded that they were still searching for a man who had been reported missing several months ago. Wark sad that the body had likely been in the water for the entire...
...Rights Watch, where she worked for over two decades as a senior adviser in the Africa division. In a statement released on its Web site, Human Rights Watch praised Des Forges as “the world’s leading expert on the 1994 Rwanda genocide and its aftermath.” Those who knew Des Forges at Radcliffe, when she went by her maiden name Alison Liebhafsky, expressed no surprise that she had made her life’s work to uncover the human rights abuses in the world. Susan E. Shepard ’65, who lived...
...This is an era of limits," Jerry Brown recently told TIME, reprising a theme he sounded more than 30 years ago, when the state first put him in the governor's mansion in the aftermath of Watergate and during the last throes of the Vietnam War. "There is not a lot of room for political maneuvering. The age of dividing up the easy surpluses is over. We've been on a borrowing binge, both in the private and public sector, and we're going to have to enter a time of belt-tightening." (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...schizoid about this. In the aftermath of Vietnam and Watergate, we loved it when candidate Jimmy Carter carried his own laundry, and we admired him for walking down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day. Yet just a few weeks later we excoriated him for wearing a cardigan sweater and addressing us from the Oval Office on the energy crisis. There is this classic pendulum that swings back and forth. On the one hand, we want our presidents, if not necessarily to be of us, than certainly to be accessible to us. On the other hand, at various times in our history...