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...Loganathan, 51, was born in the southern Indian city of Chennai and had been a civil and environmental engineering professor at Virginia Tech since 1982. He won several awards for excellence in teaching, had served on the faculty senate and was an adviser to about 75 undergraduate students...
...reached statehood or were Confederate. The book’s argument is interesting, but ultimately a little too neat. If you’re looking for an understanding of contemporary political conflicts, Richardson can give it to you in just one word: Reconstruction. In the years following the Civil War, the Northern Republicans, which in new-millennium speak means Democrats, believed the best way to reforge the nation was by “favoring” what Richardson calls special interest groups—you know, the workers, women, and newly freed slaves seeking a guarantee of equal rights. However...
...Iraqi dictator was in power, the country’s decision to veto a United Nations resolution condemning human-rights violations in Myanmar, and its policy of “silent diplomacy” in regard to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s “assault on civil liberties” in his country. “[South Africa’s] approach to foreign relations is rapidly undermining our international credibility and has all but obliterated the moral high ground we struggled so hard to achieve through our transition to democracy,” he said...
...Sudan, spoke to an audience of about 30 in Harvard Hall last night, telling stories of his flight from war-torn southern Sudan, his travels in East Africa, and his emigration to the United States. The raid that displaced Dau occurred in the midst of the Second Sudanese Civil War, a conflict between Sudan’s northern Arab government and non-Arab forces in the country’s south that ended in 2005. After fleeing his village in distress, enduring extreme hunger and thirst, and weathering ambushes by Arab troops, Dau eventually reached a refugee camp in Ethiopia...
...Secretary Rice herself - and to guard the crossings into the Palestinian territory of Gaza at Rafah and Karni. But some Western envoys fear that strengthening Abbas' forces could help unravel the unity government. International observers and Palestinians claim that Abbas' Praetorian guard was hardly neutral during the recent civil conflict that wracked the Palestinian territories as gunmen from Fatah and Hamas traded fire for days on end: The president's forces laid siege to the Islamic University in Gaza, which has many Hamas sympathizers among its students, destroying classrooms, libraries and a computer center. Palestinians and some Western diplomats monitoring...