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...want to see you back in uniform. That's an order.' HUGO CHAVEZ, Venezuelan President, urging ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro to bring back the fatigues El Comandante was once known for. Castro, who has not appeared in public in 10 months, has only been seen in recent photos wearing tracksuits...
...watching it collapse. Another Day of Life is a harrowing account of the 1970s Angolan civil war; The Shadow of the Sun contains the best of the author's Africa reporting; and The Soccer War recounts, among other idiocies, the lethal, football-inflamed 1969 spat between Honduras and El Salvador...
...undergraduate group affiliated with the Philips Brooks House Association (PBHA)—is set to open a new community office near Central Square to serve the Latino community in the greater Boston area. The new office, which opens on June 20, will be housed by El Concilio Hispano, a Massachusetts non-profit. According to an SCAS press release, the group was founded in 1973 “to provide free, quality information and assistance to underprivileged members of our community in order to help them to defend their legal rights and improve the quality of their lives...
...Principe is part of a string of countries on the Gulf of Guinea, the right angle in Africa's west coast, which is the oil industry's new El Dorado. By some estimates, Africa holds 10% of the world's reserves, but that figure belies the importance West Africa has already achieved as a source of energy. According to Poisoned Wells, a new book on African oil by Nicholas Shaxson, an associate fellow with international affairs institute Chatham House in London, the U.S. imported more oil from Africa than from the Middle East in 2005, and more from the Gulf...
...their rage--was sharpened by the spread of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories after the war. (There are now some 250,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank and an additional 182,000 in East Jerusalem, which Israel has annexed.) Crowning the hill above Jalazon is the Beit El settlement. Remove the barbed-wire fencing, the security gate and guard towers, and Beit El's tidy rows of red-roofed houses and gardens could be mistaken for an Arizona suburb. A friend of Omar's named Yousef, a crude map of Palestine tattooed on his wrist, says...