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...refugee camp in the village of Dubie in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a government soldier dragged her into a house, tore off her sarong and T shirt, and raped her. Her two-month-old baby, whom she was carrying on her back, tumbled to the ground and lay wailing throughout the attack. "He left me there naked," Ngoza Djoli says, her baby at her breast. Djoli does not know how old she is; she looks about 17. When her husband heard her distraught tale, she says, he said: "What can we do? He is a soldier...
...depression distracted him, making it hard for him to pay attention in class. It exhausted it him as he lay awake at night contemplating suicide and caused him to miss classes as he caught up on sleep during the day. Most importantly, he was miserable. Despite his great academic performance, he couldn’t take any joy in his achievements. Ultimately, achievement cannot compensate for sustained misery...
...play], and you have to make decisions quicker,” McCafferty says. “But then as you play in the first couple of games, you just sort of settle down, and everything sort of comes to you.” The trick, the two soon learned, lay in finding their own unique ways to contribute to the team, rather than merely emulating the ghosts of defensemen past. “I never really thought about [replacing Lannon and Welch] too much,” Christian says. And though McCafferty says that “coming...
...audience that democracy is not a precondition for him to visit mainland China, but he would like to build more consensus before deciding to visit. “I’m a little bit surprised but pleased to hear that he said he didn’t lay down any preconditions for visiting the mainland,” said Guanglong Chen, a second-year student at the Kennedy School of Government. “I think it’s a very good indication that he’s willing to carry on the task [of reunification...
...patience, warning that they were embarking on a "long, difficult and arduous process." Yet the conservative Popular Party greeted the announcement with skepticism. "It is a pause, not a renunciation [of terrorism]," declared PP's leader, Mariano Rajoy, who pointed out that ETA has yet to agree to lay down its arms...