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...Forty-three percent of his country's population is age 15 or younger, and most are uneducated. Last year university students rioted, and an elite military assault team attacked their dormitories. The army sees the students as pampered rich kids. Class differences are rising. The future may belong to the educated young -- or it could be dictated by the embittered, uneducated masses from which the army and the gendarmerie draw their recruits. As elsewhere in Africa, there are two deadly races: economic growth against population, and basic education against ignorance...
There are two kinds of memory: the official ones that belong to the world in highlight films, and the private ones that are preserved, if at all, in dusty photo albums. Some Olympic moments from Barcelona will now pass into the collective unconscious -- Charles Barkley dunking, Gail Devers smiling, Derek Redmond in tears hobbling on his pulled hamstring toward the 400-m finish line, leaning on his father's shoulder. Others will be as unmarked as the snapshots the Bhutanese archers take back of a city full of boats...
...first year taught me an awful lot about college and about colleges. Life up the river made me realize that, for whatever reason, you sometimes end up where you don't belong. Knowing when, where and why to go becomes a matter of survival. And Harvard might not be your paradise, just as MIT wasn't mine. Everyone makes mistakes...
Though the gang members have halted their internecine bloodletting for now, police point out that they have hardly become model citizens. According to the Reiner report, gang members commit six times as many crimes as people from similar backgrounds who do not belong to gangs. "Each one is a mini crime wave, and together they are a major crime wave," says Reiner. Opinions vary on what role gangs played in the riots, but there is no doubt that they were involved. Several gang members have been charged in the near fatal beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. Last week...
Here is what rivals, and even friends, say. She never lived in a refugee camp, spent time in jail, proved her activist credentials: "We don't know her history, where she stands." She's not from any faction, and among Palestinians, who you are is whom you belong to. Her enemies accuse her of being a tool of the P.L.O., which pays her salary, supplies her bodyguards, keeps her in power. No, others say, she's there only because the Americans want her there. She's too compromising: "People think she negotiates on behalf of Baker instead of negotiating with...