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...spasm of communal violence has almost brought down the 11-month-old government of Prime Minister V.P. Singh, who offered to resign for the second time in three months. It was the most serious challenge yet to Singh, who is struggling to hold his party together, even as the rise of Hindu nationalism threatens to undermine the secular foundations of the world's most populous democracy. Said S.R. Bommai, president of the Prime Minister's Janata Dal party: "The country is at a crossroads. We have to choose between secularism and religious fundamentalism, between democracy and mobocracy, between unity...
...communal feeling shown by the Holden Chapelchoirs does not seem to extend to the other threechoirs on campus: The University Choir, TheHarvard/Radcliffe Chorus (HRC), and Choir inProgress (CHIP). The University Choir, which singsin Memorial Church on Sunday mornings, has thedistinction of being the only salaried choralgroup. All members receive a pay check for theirrehearsal and performance time, albeit onlyminimum wage. The trade-off is a somewhat limitedrepertoire. "Our music is basic church anthems,what every Protestant choir sings," says choirmember Kristine Haglund...
...students said they noticed no unusual undergraduate turnout at either the student union or the dormitory communal lounges. No special university-wide rallies or gatherings were called...
Isolated from outsiders until the early 1900s, some 24,000 Yanomami still dwell in Brazil and Venezuela. They live in doughnut-shaped communal homes, have no written language, wear no clothes, use rudimentary tools and subsist by hunting, fishing and cultivating a variety of crops, including sweet potatoes and bananas...
...first-year room-mate who got terrifically smashed every weekend, or every night. Or we've told the one about our friend's recent blackout, when (ha ha) he couldn't remember anything about the woman he slept with that night. Or we've smelled the vomit in the communal bathrooms in Matthews, Thayer or Weld...