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...young in the mid-'80s, you'll remember the trauma of that moment - if Coke could change, what couldn't? And if you were Benji's age, you'll remember the party at the roller rink, the Apple II+, the Tears for Fears video and the way everybody said "dag," a word expressive of such complex emotion that you couldn't possibly articulate its meaning. But Whitehead can. "Dag was bitter acknowledgment of the brutish machinery of the world," Benji explains, and he makes it sound so right and true that you wish people would start to say it again...
...India, the Gandhi family has towered over its democracy for 60 years. In the Middle East, after helping broker a historic peace deal with Israel in 1993, Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement quickly lapsed into authoritarianism and corruption. As a young man, Henning Melber, executive director at the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation in Uppsala, Sweden, fought in Namibia against white rule. Watching his fellow liberators turn on their own people once the war was won taught him that revolution and democracy are "incompatible," he says. (See pictures of China doing business in Africa...
...alleged confessions were aired, Van der Sloot dismissed them as lies. "I just told Van der Eem what he wanted to hear," Van der Sloot said in an interview on Friday on television. A person who identified himself as the said Daury dismissed them on Monday in the newspaper DAG. He denounces the story and says he was in the Netherlands at the time...
...deaths were splashed across front pages. The zoo's deputy director insisted that the laissez-faire approach had a reason: "If you don't let the mothers practice, they'll never learn how to bring up their cubs," he said. But in an interview with TIME, Nuremberg zoo director Dag Encke suggested the case was not that simple. "As long as the mothers are behaving well towards the baby, we wouldn't interfere," he explained. "But only in the second case was it clear that the mother was acting strangely." In Vilma's case, Encke said that the zookeepers didn...
...February that the White House was involved in the firing of at least one of the nine U.S. attorneys who were forced to resign last year, the tension between his office and Gonzales's has divided and crippled the department. "There's a war going on between the DAG's office and the AG's office," says one senior Justice official."The thing that's 100% clear is that there's really no leadership. Both the DAG and the AG are so compromised, there's no one running the department. There's a lot of antagonism between those two groups...