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...wants these perks; in their manifesto they cite "access to the support of club alumni" as a crucial advantage they are denied. Intent on joining the elite, their egalitarian rhetoric rings hollow...
...Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria and An-Nahda (Renaissance) in Tunisia are predominantly home grown. But the target governments, which have responded with repression, tend to charge that the violent onslaughts against them are inspired by Islamic centers abroad, engaged in a conspiracy of subversion. They most often cite Afghanistan, Iran and Sudan as the instigators and paymasters, and claim that the cadres in their local terrorist organizations can all be traced back to Afghanistan, where the 14-year war against Soviet invaders spawned an army of fanatics...
...pull up are a messy tangle of societal ills. "We have a whole generation of kids suffering from neglect," says sociologist Stephen Klineberg of Houston's Rice University. "There is no one at home when they return from school, and this neglect in socialization results in increased violence." Others cite neglect's twin evil, child abuse, or that distant relative, school truancy. Liberals decry poverty; conservatives fault the decline of family values...
Arlen and Diane Chase, archaeologists at the University of Central Florida, believe their work at Caracol, in present-day Belize, also shows that escalating warfare was largely responsible for that ancient city's abrupt extinction. Among the evidence they cite: burn marks on buildings, the uncharacteristically unburied body of a six-year-old child lying on the floor of a pyramid, and an increase in war imagery on late monuments and pottery. "Of course we found weapons too," says Arlen...
...contract administrators apparently discussed the best way to obtain Blackwill's consultation. Reluctant to cite Allison's office as a sponsor because of his consultant status, the report said the two decided to instead cite the Russian, Eurasian and East European Affairs Office as the sponsor. When the assistant deputy undersecretary of defense for that department received a copy, he objected the use of his office's name. The report concluded with regard to Allison's influence on the hiring of Blackwill that "it appears...that his actions were directive rather than advisory in nature and, therefore, exceeded the limitations...