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...much hate accumulate in so small a country? Historians could point to Rwanda as a case study in what happens to a former colony when suppressed tribal rivalries are released into a power vacuum. It is a familiar lesson: an estimated 1 million Hindus and Muslims died in communal fighting after the British pulled out of India; the departure of the Belgians from the Congo set off savage ethnic-regional warfare; the collapse of the Soviet Union ignited a murderous rivalry between Abkhazians and Georgians for control of Georgia. Rwanda's preindependence history held special ironies: while colonial rule...
...surfaced as a popular phenomenon last year in Spain, where a two-disc version of Chant sold 325,000 copies in four months. The Benedictines' run-down 8th century abbey in northern Spain became a Mecca for music lovers, who came in throngs to hear the monks chant their communal prayers seven times a day. All this attention has flummoxed the abbey's 36 residents. "You have to understand," said one, "we are not rock stars...
...astonished me with their altruism. For anyone who is confronted by a slick marketing type condescendingly writing our generation off with that "X," I offer the following few vignettes. Each one is an anecdote about people who are idealists, and who are willing to give of themselves to a communal cause. I give them to fellow members of my generation to defend ourselves against the prevailing stereotype...
...hope this campus' efforts to send relief to the people of Bosnia continue. I also hope that we look at this effort as a paradigm of communal activism and the sounding out of our community's moral voice...
...long as the controversy rages, theembattled Dr. Israel will be unable to achieve hisideal--and Skinner's ideal--of a communal utopia...