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...hills above Dili's outer western suburbs. Cradling their 18-month-old son, they listened anxiously to the almost continuous thunder of gunshots and exploding grenades that echoed around the ridges on April 29. "I had to go up onto the ridge because I was worried the grenades might land on my house," Afonza says...
...like most of my fellow Serbs, I stayed at home and watched the live broadcast of jubilation with mixed emotions. I still hold a valid passport with the word Yugoslavia on the cover, although the country that issued it now exists only in history books. The name means "Land of the South Slavs," as it was created on the ruins of two great powers - the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires - which once ruled the Balkans. After World War I, the idea of bringing together all these closely related ethnic groups - Serbs, Croats, Slovenes and others - in one superstate seemed...
MORALES Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded. So we needed to end that internal colonialism and return the land and its natural resources to those who have lived on it for so many hundreds of years, instead of putting our economy in the hands of the World Bank, the IMF [International Monetary Fund] and transnational corporations. We, of course, want [private] investment partners, and we want them to profit, but we should be the absolute owners of the land and resources...
...fledgling company, USA Dragon Boating, organizes festivals for a fee. He will set up the racecourse and conduct paddling and coaching clinics before the event to make sure participants don't end up in the drink on race day. Local organizers, typically charitable or cultural groups, are responsible for land-based arrangements: tents, Porta Pottis, bringing in sponsorships, cultural activities, food services--anything that draws crowds and meets their needs. Some festivals attract more than 100 teams, each paying an entry fee of up to $2,500 for a corporate team of at least 20 paddlers...
...Congo's troubles rarely make daily news headlines, and the country is often low on international donors' lists of places to help. After Sudan, Congo is the second largest nation in sub-Saharan Africa, a land so vast and ungovernable that it has long been perceived as the continent's ultimate hellhole, the setting for Joseph Conrad's 1899 book Heart of Darkness. It is in part because of that malign reputation--and because the nation's feckless rulers have consistently reinforced it--that the world has been willing to let Congo bleed. Since 2000, the U.N. has spent billions...