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...time for political settlement was yesterday.' CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. Secretary of State, on resolving the differences between rival parties in Kenya, where 1,000 have died in ethnic strife triggered by disputed elections...
With female final clubs, the Seneca, pre-professional groups like Women in Business, and ethnic groups like South Asian Women’s Collective, it may seem that Harvard’s women are faced with a dizzying array of options in terms of success-driven sisterhood. Why memorize the words to a Kappa Kappa Gamma (Kappa) song when you could be networking your way to Morgan Stanley through Smart Women Securities? Yet every February about 150 girls—smart, modern, and mostly freshman—begin the process of rushing Harvard’s three sororities. The recruitment...
...term’s ubiquity, “Homeland Security” retains its sinister ring.What is more, the drive to recast our great nation as a “homeland” belittles America as an ideal. Americans have never been defined by a common geographic or ethnic heritage so much as by a shared investment in a set of democratic values. What sets the United States apart from almost any nation on earth is this conception that we are a people bound together more by our beliefs than by a common origin in some racial or ethnic...
...Catalans the only regional nationalist movement pressing centuries-old linguistic, ethnic and historical claims on the forward-looking government in Madrid. In the Basque country, also endowed with extensive autonomy in the post-Franco era, separatist political sentiment remains ubiquitous, and terrorist actions by ETA continue...
...Europe's major powers - Britain, France and Germany - have, like the United States, encouraged Kosovo's drive for independence, citing the unique circumstances of its breakaway from Serbia. Nearly 1 million ethnic Albanians were forced to flee Serb ruler Slobodan Milosevic's attempt to "cleanse" them from the Serbian province in which they constituted more than 80% of the population. In the wake of the U.S.-led war that expelled Milosevic's troops from Kosovo, the Serbs have refused to negotiate on the future status of the territory, which the international community acknowledged remained legally part of Serbia even when...