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Oddly, the country's economic coherence of the past 15 years has gone hand in hand with political fractiousness. There have been 12 governments since 1991. And the nation still nurses deep wounds. Ethnic Russians make up about one-third of the population, many of them the families of people shipped in by the Soviets to tame its breakaway tendencies. Since independence, thousands of these Russians have passed an exam to become naturalized Estonians. But some 130,000, almost 10% of the population, haven...
...trade that Portuguese colonialists founded long ago is a distant memory, victim of a civil war that lasted for 27 years. Dondo's fortunes, however, may be looking up. This month, work is scheduled to start on the local section of the line that links the town to the deep harbor at Luanda, Angola's capital. The work will be done by Chinese construction firms, and as two of their workers survey the track, an Angolan security guard sums up his feelings. "Thank you, God," he says, "for the Chinese...
...Your innovative Person of the Year cover was interesting, but I see behind it a deep and perhaps unintended symbolism. The image of oneself that we see on the cover is distorted and fractured. Does this symbolize the fragmented nature of the human psyche today? In India, we have known for millennia that even the image that one sees in a clear mirror is not the real you. The real you is the spiritual spark that resides within the mysterious depths of human consciousness. So perhaps your cover is really more appropriate than you realize. Karan Singh Member of Parliament...
...wake of media speculation, [Richard] reaffirms her deep and unequivocal commitment to the University of Cambridge and to completing the full term of her appointment, which ends in 2010,” the statement said. That marks a change from last month, when Richard’s office released a less definitively worded statement saying that she “does not consider herself a candidate for the presidency of Harvard...
...traffic jam the results are spectacular: an almost continuous blast of horns, deep and tinny, near and far. The bass of a bus mixes with the thin shrieks of a motor scooter. Add in the noise of rasping truck brakes, the sweet tinkle of bicycles and rickshaws, the wailing Bollywood music pumped out by kids in their new cars, the reverberating bangs and cries of touts beating on the sides of buses for business, the siren of an ambulance vainly trying to push its way through the heaving mass and the general, constant growl of traffic and you have...