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...provinces of northwestern and eastern India - promised to be the success story of the subcontinent, a democratic entity divested of India's terrible legacy of caste entitlement. Little more than a year after Mohammed Ali Jinnah signed the document declaring Pakistan a sovereign state, the erudite, Savile Row-suited father of the nation died of lung cancer and tuberculosis, leaving the infant democracy bereft of his enlightened guidance. With him died the charismatic leadership that his new nation, divided into West and East Pakistan (later Bangladesh), desperately needed in order to grow as a modern state. In a sense, Pakistan...
...mills. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education, she came from a family of sharecroppers, she worked hard all of her life. I loved her dearly," Edwards said Wednesday in Burlington. "She would have done anything for me, for my children, for my grandchildren, and my mother and father they were exactly the same way. They are no different than most of your parents and your grandparents. They worked and sacrificed so that you could have a better life...
There's enough blame to go around. In principle, the FARC agreed earlier this month to release former Colombian Congresswoman Consuelo Gonzalez and politician Clara Rojas, who were kidnapped six years ago. The third hostage was Rojas' 3-year-old son, Emmanuel, whose father is said to be one of the FARC captors. They were to be freed days before New Year's Eve. But when nothing happened last weekend, and when the FARC kept failing to provide Venezuelan officials with geographical coordinates for the release site, doubts began to rise...
...were cowering behind locked doors in their homes, terrified of going out on the streets. It was unclear whether the killings would lead to wider clashes. Eldoret saw massive violence in elections in 1992 and 1997 as well. "We cannot move out of the house," said Elijah Ombiru, a father of four in the city. "People are being killed everywhere and the situation is very, very worse...
...PLANET, April 26]. Some readers, however, might be left with the impression that Earth Day was my idea. Former Senator Gaylord Nelson first proposed the event; he was the board's chairman, and he persuaded me to serve as national coordinator. Senator Nelson is thus the true "father" of Earth Day. I was, perhaps, its midwife. DENIS HAYES, CHAIR Earth Day Network Seattle...