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...century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder The first flush of democracy was hard on central Johannesburg. Crime forced many businesses to flee to safer suburbs; even the stock exchange moved out. But over the past few years the government and business groups have begun redeveloping the city, and visitors are starting to come back. One big success is Newtown, long the city's theater district and now full of restaurants and other...
...reports are truly shocking: women raped, villages burned, children slaughtered. The violence has already left an estimated 30,000 dead—approximately 1000 individuals are currently being killed each week—and displaced nearly a million Africans. A lucky hundred thousand refugees have managed to flee into neighboring Chad—itself one of the world’s poorest nations—where the United Nations is currently rushing to settle them in camps before the May wet season makes vehicle transportation all but impossible. But another 700,000 refugees are still trapped in Darfar where they...
...about 100 yards from where I had met him. "It was his one hobby, to swim," Mohammed's brother later told me. "His fate was to die by the sea." The helicopter launched at least three Hellfire missiles as the four men in the car tried to flee. Afterward, there was little of Mohammed to bury besides his head. His real name, I learned, was Ahmed Ishtawi, a top commander in Hamas' clandestine military wing, dead...
...RELEASED. SEOK JAE HYUN, 34, the only foreign journalist known to be imprisoned in China; in Qingdao. A South Korean freelance photographer who has worked for the New York Times, Seok was arrested in January 2003 while covering a failed attempt by North Korean defectors to flee to South Korea and Japan in fishing boats. Because of international pressure, he was freed after serving 14 months of his two-year sentence for human trafficking...
...Americans, we speak English, Spanish, French, German, Lenape, Swahili and any number of other tongues. We are free to speak these languages and express our diverse cultures because America’s founders, too, were immigrants, and understood the terms of oppression that caused them to flee their own native countries. But recent literature by Samuel P. Huntington, Harvard’s Weatherhead University Professor, has caught much of the Harvard community off-guard by disregarding this fundamental truth. Huntington’s critique of Latin American (particularly Mexican) immigration to the United States comes after a long history...