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...Susie's breezy, wisecracking voice sounds eerily familiar, that's because it could belong to a Martha Moxley or a Chandra Levy or a JonBenet Ramsey or any of the other little girls lost whose faces haunt billboards and photocopied flyers and whose stories we play and replay obsessively on the 6 o'clock news. "Murder had a blood red door," Susie tells us, "on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone." In The Lovely Bones, Sebold takes us behind that red door; she imagines the unimaginable and in doing so reminds us that those missing girls...
...EUROPE Faeroese (50,000 speakers) doesn't get protected by the European Union minority-language bureau: the Faeroe Islands don't belong. Others at risk are Sardinian, from the Italian island of Sardinia, and Yiddish, on the wane since World...
...border between the two countries. Tensions increased after an armed gang attacked a school bus in Ratchaburi province, 20 km from the border, killing three children and wounding another 12. Some 300 Thai troops and police were sent to the border area to search for the gunmen, believed to belong to a Karen insurgent group. PHILIPPINES Rescue Tragedy An attempt by Philippine troops in Zamboanga del Norte to rescue two American hostages held for more than a year by Abu Sayyaf rebels went disastrously wrong, ending in the deaths of missionary Martin Burnham and a Filipina nurse, Adeborah...
...tend to be of the mindset that the place for interdisciplinary scholars is in their departments,” Pedersen says. “I’m a historian. My research covers lots of areas, but I belong in history...
...vital one. Though numerous armies already exist in Afghanistan, they belong to warlords, not the interim national government in Kabul. There is no single fighting body that operates in the interests of the country. For now, international peacekeepers hold the fort only in Kabul, and eventually they will want to hand over responsibility and pull out. Without a proper army in place, a return to the kind of chaos that gave rise to the Taliban and the feuding warlords is not out of the question. Says a U.S. military source: "Lawless groups like al Qaeda will again come in, fester...