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...deserts. South Africa has three: Namaqualand, the Kalahari and the Karoo. Namaqualand and the Kalahari both extend into neighboring countries, but the vast Karoo - hundreds of miles of dusty plains, barren mountains and rocky canyons stretching across the central hinterland - is South Africa's alone. As a former frontier for European colonists, it is a place thick with history and bloody legend...
Chávez's calm concession did Venezuela, as well as democracy-challenged Latin America, a valuable service. And, whether he believes it or not, Venezuela did Chávez a favor as well by rebuffing the constitutional amendments that sought to expand and extend his already ample political power. The referendum loss should prod him to focus on the Venezuelan problems that need to be fixed before he leaves office in 2013, instead of the globe-trotting socialist and anti-U.S. crusades he hoped to pursue as President "until 2050," as he remarked last month. If so, he stands...
...work hard.”Harvard (9-0-0, 9-0-0 ECAC) traveled to Troy, N.Y., on Friday night to take on Rensselaer (6-7-2, 1-4-1) at the Houston Field House. Junior Sarah Vaillancourt led the team with two goals and an assist to help extend Harvard’s winning streak to eight games with a 5-2 triumph over the Engineers.After a 16-mile bus ride west, six different Harvard skaters scored in a 6-0 victory over bottom-dwelling Union (1-13-0, 0-6-0) in Schenectady. HARVARD 6, UNION 0 Just...
...Sharif to commit to the election and thus justify Musharraf's claim "that I have fulfilled the promise of bringing democracy" back. Says Iqbal, "If [the government is] sure there is no boycott then they will lift the emergency" - hinting at the opposition belief that Musharraf could still extend the emergency if one of the candidates commits to a boycott...
...sometimes more the idea than the reality." He's noticed that some U.S. troops in Kosovo come after tours of duty in Iraq or Afghanistan and bring with them prejudices against Muslims. But his main focus is Kosovo, where he says the "status" question - of when and how to extend independence to the Albanian-majority nation - has become a way for political leaders to distract citizens from more concrete problems. Basic infrastructure is decrepit (electric power is cut twice a day in Ferizaj), the unemployment rate is the highest in Europe, and organized crime and corruption are on the rise...