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...night draws near, soldiers huddle in groups, batting away mosquitoes. The political impasse has not shaken their faith in the peace process. Most seem more interested in the victories of the camp's team in a recent intra-PLA women's volleyball tournament than in recalling their brutal triumphs during the insurgency. But when asked about why they joined the Maoists in the first place, they offer up a catalog of social and political ills plaguing Nepal. One describes the rigid caste prejudice that forever stunted his family's ambitions; a woman fighter rails against traditional patriarchies. Another soldier...
...College, classes also continued fairly regularly throughout the afternoon though the weather complicated students’ intra-campus travel plans...
When it comes to intra-faculty vehicular stereotypes, the economics department is known as the one with the flashiest autos. “Look in back of Littauer if you want to see the latest models,” Mansfield says, referring to the building by the Science Center where most Harvard economists work...
...focus their attention on the local Polish base in the city in an effort to push the Coalition out of the city. That's just what the militias did with the British in Basra, leaving the city up for grabs for an all-out fight for power, an intra-sect bloodbath that Sunni extremists would only love to hasten and exploit. With reporting by TIME's Iraqi staff in the South
...liabilities. Arguments flare, egos collide, and substance is forgotten. Such sections ideally need the direction of an assertive TF, but when none is forthcoming, the collective geniality and good humor of everyone else can help to ease tensions. People should step up more often. Much more common than rancorous, intra-section feuds, however, are uncomfortable silences. Nothing can kill good discussion like a dose of garden-variety, Harvard-style awkwardness. In this case, the best remedy is usually an affable, eccentric type to put everyone else at ease. When one member of a section is goofy or ridiculous, its other...