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...team's 101-year history, told TIME that the team - good as it was - was an "indictment" of South African rugby's failure to integrate. He said he believed racial quotas might ultimately be the only way to create a team that reflected the country's ethnic makeup...
...Nationalism is on the rise again in Serbia due to the imminent secession of Kosovo, the mostly ethnic-Albanian province which is seeking independence from Serbia with the backing of the West, while Belgrade - backed by Moscow - remains fiercely opposed. Following the footsteps of Milosevic, Seselj is also expected to use the courtroom as a platform for further hate speech, thus advancing the electoral prospects of his deputy Tomislav Nikolic, who is running for president in Serbia's January elections. Nikolic, the caretaker of the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party in Seselj's absence, is running neck-and-neck with incumbent...
...with a View” series yesterday afternoon, the answer lies partly in that very progress. In a talk entitled, “The War of the World,” Ferguson argued that the major ingredients for world war continue to loom today. Ferguson said that economic volatility, ethnic disintegration, and empires in decline— what he called the “three E’s”—are responsible for the unprecedented scale of violence in the past century. In the economic booms, said Ferguson, it was often minorities—such...
...northern regions of Burma, Laos and Thailand, Khun Sa was both king and kingpin--the man the U.S. once called the world's largest heroin producer. In the '80s and '90s, when Burma produced three-quarters of the world's heroin, the charming, ruthless guerrilla leader fended off ethnic rivals to control some 75% of Burma's trade--as well as a cadre of brutal armies to cement his rule. He surrendered with amnesty to Burmese officials in 1996. Now the Golden Triangle grows just 5% of the world's heroin supply. Khun Sa, who died of unknown causes...
...Still, some Vietnamese artists manage to exhibit thought-provoking works. Born in remote mountains that are home to disenfranchised ethnic minorities, Dinh Thi Tham Poong tweaks traditional folk art with contemporary touches. Her canvases capture the tensions between the natural world and the onslaught of Vietnam's economic reforms - all without appearing overtly political. The country's censors likely have a hard time understanding that Poong's whimsical figures scattered across traditional handmade paper could possibly be making a social statement. But it is only in such narrow margins that Vietnam's artists can safely operate...