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Aside from fronting the band, Khuri still maintains a day job in Washington, D.C., utilizing his Harvard education as a consultant for conflict management and negotiations training. But he says that while he remains open to whatever possibilities lie ahead in his future international relations career, his heart currently lies with the band. “I’ve found that I complete my role in the community best by making music,” he says. “The Kennedy School did a great job of enhancing my awareness, and it’s given...

Author: By Paula I. Ibieta, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kennedy School Americana | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...yolks, wheat and sugar; of a road-tax imposed on greased wheels; and of nights spent in post-stations, a kind of 19th-century motel where one slept in a cubicle with waist-height boards for walls. Through Mrs. Adams’ eyes, we see evidence of the Napoleonic conflict. In Eastern Prussia, she is alarmed by the thinned population, by clusters of unprotected women on the streets, and half-burned houses. Later, she passes the harrowed battlefield of Leipzig—scene of the biggest battle in Europe before World War I—where human skeletons are still...

Author: By Grace E. Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: O’Brien’s ‘Mrs. Adams’ Envisions A Nuanced Past | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...this: by renewing its crackdown on insurgents in the North Caucasus, a predominantly Muslim hub for domestic terrorism. But in an interview with TIME, the leading lady of the Caucasus resistance in exile warned that this will only fuel the insurgency there, dragging Russia deeper into a decades-old conflict in its most rebellious region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow Bombings: A New Cycle of Retaliation? | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

Perhaps most frustrating for Russia's leaders is that the conflict appeared to have ended last year in Chechnya. In April 2009, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev even abolished the "special security regime" in Chechnya, a move widely seen as marking an end to the prolonged Chechen conflict. Created by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the start of Russia's second invasion of Chechnya, in 1999, the special regime imposed curfews, roadblocks, spot searches and arbitrary detentions on local residents for 10 years in the name of security. After Medvedev's announcement, the state also withdrew some 20,000 federal troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow Bombings: A New Cycle of Retaliation? | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...belligerent, tweeting on Monday, "We have to continue fighting the terrorists without pleasantries, liquidating them without emotion or hesitation." This suggests that a new security regime could be on its way to the North Caucasus. Such a response could mark another turning point in the long-running conflict - and runs the risk of renewing a quagmire the government thought it was finally starting to escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow Bombings: A New Cycle of Retaliation? | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

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