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Since taking office in 2002, Uribe has made impressive progress with Colombia's security and economy. But there is scant contact between him and the FARC, which is far from vanquished. "I'm killing myself every day wondering why dialogue is so impossible for all sides in this tragedy," says Betancourt's mother Yolanda Pulecio. At least Betancourt is a cause celebre in France. In their jungle encampments, America's hostages in Colombia are not just out of sight; to all but their families and supporters, they seem to be out of mind too. With reporting by Sibylla Brodzinsky/Bogota...
...facilitator and legal protector of the undergraduate’s safety, not as a parental enforcer of arbitrary limitations.The second objectionable suggestion of the draft report is the elimination of the online event registration system. The subcommittee justifies this change by insisting that it will emphasize face-to-face contact between students and College staff. While the intention may be good, the logic is built on nothing better than quicksand. Apparently, the Subcommittee believes that because they have relatively free days, we do as well. Unfortunately, those pesky things called classes stand in most students way from being able...
...quickly revealed that the LRA's top negotiator was sacked amid reports he had stolen tens of thousands of dollars and failed to deliver a letter from the Ugandan President to Kony guaranteeing his safety. And then, despite days of waiting, no one could contact the rebel leader, who was already elusive but has become even more so since he executed his deputy late last year. Reports of further clashes and summary executions within the ranks trickled back into the camp from elders who were dispatched to find out what was going...
...graduating class of Bangalore's new Dale Carnegie Training center splits into pairs, each earnestly practicing a routine the students have spent four months learning. "Hi, my name is Gautam," I'm told while my hand gets a vigorous shake. Dazzled by the bright smile and seemingly effortless eye contact, I barely manage to mumble my own name before my companion moves briskly along and I find myself being asked what I do for a living. All around me are similar smiling faces and heads nodding attentively in synch. Eventually the conversations take on a more relaxed tone, until...
...minority students feel so quickly pulled from the larger Harvard community. A number of them remember their early contact with the College as somewhat amorphous. For their introduction to Harvard, race, age, sex, and socioeconomic status bled together into a nebulous search for friends...