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...Naxalites also regularly terrorize village folk and warn them not to move to government-controlled areas. On our trip into the hinterland it was impossible to ask villagers whether they were happy with the Maoist presence or not. But a few days earlier, in a camp for people displaced by the conflict about 20 miles away, Miriyam Joga, 41, could barely contain his rage. A relatively successful farmer, Joga had owned a few dozen goats and 27 oxen in the southern Chhattisgarh village of Punpalli until a Naxalite raid three years ago. "They said if I leave my village then...
When Elizabeth Pisani writes about AIDS, she wants people to know the unvarnished details. Her data on prevalence is gathered in nightclubs where researchers ask patrons about their sexual habits. She talks to women across Asia who have chosen prostitution because it pays better than factory work. And she studies the impact of specific sexual activities, explaining scientifically why, say, anal sex is so much riskier than vaginal sex. The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS is, in other words, unlike most books on HIV policy, which shroud arguments about sex and drugs in abstract, uncontroversial...
...members remained in the station to protest the policy, and after approximately 30 minutes, the police came to formally ask the group to leave the premises. Four of the 20 did not cooperate, leading to their arrest...
...Portland recruiting station today, Reitan attempted to enlist as an openly gay male, upon which a military official cited the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy to stop the procedure...
...Maine Senator Susan M. Collins, a moderate Republican, at a Memorial Day parade on Sunday. Jarret A. Zafran ’09, president of the Harvard Democrats, said the senator refused to answer questions about co-sponsoring a bill that would end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell...