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While the guerrillas have grown stronger, army morale has weakened. Corruption within the officer corps is said to be a serious problem. The 30,000-man army has come to leave much of antiguerrilla patrolling to local militias, which consist of inadequately trained and poorly armed conscripts...
Sandy white beaches, subtropical plants, clear blue water?sound like the British Isles to you? No? Then you haven't visited the Isles of Scilly. The Scillys consist of about 150 islands and rocks, five of which are home to just over 2,000 Scillonians. There are no crowds, very little crime and only a few roads. Yet Scilly's hub, Hugh Town on St. Mary's, is less than three hours by boat from Penzance or a 15-minute airplane ride from Land's End, both in Cornwall. Once there, vacationers usually hop between the five main islands?Tresco...
...committee recommended that Harvard College Courses impart “knowledge critical for the moral and civic challenges that undergraduates face in the wider world,” and that the courses consist of two hour-long general sessions with an associated seminar...
Bond stresses that the work on the World Trade Center Memorial is a collaborative effort. Entitled “Reflecting Absence,” the memorial will consist of two reflecting pools in the footprints of the Twin Towers, and it will be surrounded by deciduous trees. The pools will be accessible to visitors by ramps, and surrounding the pools will be the names of the deceased, placed without any particular order...
Live Aid organizer bob Geldof called a press conference last week to announce his attempt to reanimate his monstrous success of 20 years ago. This time round, the biggest global rock show on earth, punningly called Live 8, will consist of free concerts in Berlin, London, Paris, Philadelphia and Rome on July 2, followed by a public demonstration on the eve of the G-8 conference in Scotland. The idea is to pressure G-8 participants to help reduce poverty in Africa. But this time Geldof's monster may be out of control. He and co-organizer Midge Ure implored...