Word: bandness
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...Abyei, on the fault-line between North and South Sudan, is the key to the country's future. On May 14, it exploded. What appeared to have been a small incident between rival militias on its outskirts quickly escalated into full-scale fighting, and there was little a small band of U.N. peacekeepers could do to contain...
...huge automobile ferry had left its home port in Tallinn, Estonia, on a routine 15-hour trip to Stockholm. Although the weather had been stormy all night, the crew did not expect serious problems. A band was playing in the Baltic Bar, and the 10-deck vessel churned through the inky waters as it had for 14 years...
...Jubilee 2000, a campaign to forgive debts owed by the world's poorest countries. With its roots in Europe's churches, Jubilee 2000 brought together, in a great ring around the city, hymn-singing, sandal-wearing nuns, teenage kids and veterans of progressive politics. As Bono of the rock band U2 puts it, the movement saw "activists, punk rockers and priests marching in step...
Welcomed by a 21-gun salute and a military band, Michel Suleiman, Lebanon's new President, took up residence Monday in the modern concrete-and-glass presidential palace set among the hilly suburbs of Beirut...
...exposed confirms the ways in which, experts believe, the political leadership of ETA interacts with its supporters. "The purpose of the political apparatus is to receive information and issue orders," says Florencio Dominguez, editor-in-chief of the news agency Vasco Press and author of several books on the band. "For both, ETA uses intermediaries, personal contacts who aren't well known but who can transmit information between them and their base among the [illegal] nationalist parties...