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...armed struggle. He was still in his teens, the son of a poor farming family in Colombia's northwestern Antioquia province, when he went into the mountains in 1948 as a Liberal partisan fighting against Conservative paramilitary gangs. This was the start of Colombia's decades-long fratricidal slaughter, la violencia. When it ended in the early 1960s, revolutionaries like Marulanda found the new Liberal-Conservative establishment as corrupt and oppressive as the old guard; and so he founded the FARC in 1964. That sparked a bloody civil war that has killed more than 40,000 people - including ghastly massacres...
...does the Democratic Party have superdelegates? Dan Moreman Jr. SHREVEPORT, LA...
Further, the screen on which people view the world will narrow. Spared the burden of considering multiple parts of the world at once, single-issue advocates may have a hard time seeing the relationship of one foreign policy challenge to another. Viewing issues la carte, they might be unable or unwilling to prioritize. To be fair, if young advocates fail to see the way Guantnamo has undermined U.S. efforts in Darfur, they are being no more tunnel-visioned than the Bush Administration. But they are the ones we are counting on to help turn things around...
Jimmy Carter isn't the only former official to reach out to militant group Hamas, which won Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006. France's former ambassador to Iraq, Yves Aubin de La Messuzire, confirmed that he had met with the group's leaders last month to discuss a possible resolution to the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process. "We must be able to talk if we want to play a role," French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told a Paris-based radio station on May 19. Hamas claims it's had similar contact with other European countries, despite U.S. attempts...
...health coverage is, first and foremost, meant to ensure that any student who needs access to basic health procedures will not be denied these for any reason, fiscal or otherwise. It is in this interest that the University offers us a comprehensive, rather than “à la carte,” health plan—one which includes elective abortions. This package of procedures is more than some default option—it is an active recognition on the University’s part that the covered procedures, when needed, are fundamental to a student?...