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...Longtime friend and former U.S. Ambassador to Croatia Peter W. Galbraith '73 said that Bhutto on occasion felt the strain of balancing her identity as a "normal undergraduate" with her patriotism in an environment that did always not support her homeland...
...Britain's estimated 750,000 Pakistanis had embraced Bhutto as a symbol of hope for freedom and stability back home. As Britain's politicians pay tribute to a fallen leader, the country's Pakistanis are trying to come to terms with what her death could augur for their troubled homeland...
...China (2003) - Qiu permanently quit China in 1988 to study at Washington University in St. Louis, a city he chose because it was T.S. Eliot's birthplace. But in the mid-1990s, when he felt the urge to write a book about the dizzying changes taking place in his homeland, Qiu discovered that the detective novel provided the best framework for his ideas - and, not coincidentally, enabled him to write with a free hand about several issues still taboo in China...
...much more than a health foodie’s cause or a produce connoisseur’s obsession, and the shift towards local, seasonal, and organic college dining is becoming increasingly common. But why should we, busy Harvard students, care about the origin of a chickpea or the homeland of a grapefruit...
With the arrest of his closest associates, Fujimori fled to Japan, his ancestral homeland, in November 2000 and was granted citizenship there. Peru was unable to extradite him from Japan. But then Fujimori did the unexpected and secretly flew to Chile, Peru's southern neighbor, in October 2005. The idea was to return to Peru from Chile to possibly run in the 2006 elections, but those plans were foiled by Chilean police, who promptly arrested him. Fujimori did come home, but under guard. The Chilean Supreme Court approved his extradition on seven counts in September...