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...brainwashed youths with guns--facing snakes, insects, disease and constant movement from one dank jungle camp to the next. But the character earning the most scorn in their lengthy account turns out to be a fellow captive. French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, whose rescue in the same mission that freed the authors made world headlines, comes off as a "frickin' princess" more interested in playing power games than in establishing solidarity with her fellow prisoners. Her emotional relationships with the many men surrounding her, the authors say, provoked jealousy so divisive that FARC minders often separated her from the others...
...hostages before them, the three gringos admit that living alongside their fellow prisoners proved almost as challenging as dealing with their prison guards. Colombian readers have been fascinated, if not irked, by their description of Betancourt, who was nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize and whom other freed prisoners have praised for her courageous, selfless behavior in the jungle. But as Gonsalves told TIME, achieving harmony among a diverse group of strangers can be trying even in the best of circumstances. He cited an experiment in which scientists put a bunch of rats in a small cage...
...Last week, a Lebanese judge freed on bail three suspects who were arrested in 2005. However, four generals who headed state security organs at the time of Hariri?s murder are to be extradited to the Hague within the next month at Bellemare?s request. The four generals, including the once powerful head of General Security, have been in custody for the past three-and-a-half years...
...Harvard and other deep-pocketed universities grapple with shrinking endowments by halting construction projects and freezing salaries, smaller schools that have no safety cushions are struggling to keep the lights on and the water running - literally. Morris Brown, a historically black school founded by freed slaves 22 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, found itself facing $380,000 in overdue water bills in December, prompting the city to dry up service to the campus. Without short-term loans to pay off some of its millions in debt, Morris Brown announced, it would have to close for the spring and possibly forever...
...ability to persuade his former acolyte to end his insurgency. Fazlullah learned at the feet of Mohammed in the 1990s, fought alongside him in Swat and later in Afghanistan, and married his daughter. Both men were imprisoned upon their return from Afghanistan, and it was after he was freed that Fazlullah returned to the Swat Valley village of Imam Dheri, operating the yellow-painted chairlift that ferries people across the Swat river. According to local lore, it was after his brother was killed in a U.S. missile strike on the village of Damadola in Bajaur in 2006 that Fazlullah seized...