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...over 40% of Nepal's population lives. A cocktail of anarchist elements, militant factions and a growing separatist movement hold sway there and prove a daunting challenge with elections coming in little more than two months. "What happened in Kenya could happen here," says Jayaraj Acharya, a former Nepalese ambassador to the U.N., speaking of the ongoing ethnic conflict in the African nation triggered by disputed elections, which has claimed hundreds of lives. "Only here," Acharya adds, "it will be worse...
...they'll remain disappointed as long as the interim government's leaders fail to forge any meaningful political unity. "It's a testing time for them," says Acharya, the former ambassador to the U.N. "One wonders if they'll prove their statesmanship." The only indication that they will, most observers drily point out, is that neither the Maoists nor the Congress Party have any better alternative other than sorting out their differences and calming the many fractious forces that might undermine April's polls...
...Where in the world has one ever seen a nation that erects memorials to immortalize its own shame?' AVI PRIMOR, former Israeli ambassador to Germany, praising Germany for taking responsibility for its history. The country will begin construction of two new memorials: one commemorating murdered Gypsies and a second for gays and lesbians killed in the Holocaust...
TIME: You are an ambassador for the country, in addition to a law enforcement officer. What do you think we need to do better...
...Representatives. If your friend Senator Hillary Clinton wins the presidential election, will you join her Cabinet? -Joseph Saucedo, SeattleI would not re-enter politics under any circumstances. I asked Hillary at a fund raiser in front of a thousand people if I could be appointed as the U.S. ambassador to France, so I could live in Paris. She said no. That is the only job I want, so I am out of luck...