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...member of the LRA delegation. Spotlighted by television cameras at a press conference, Ojul said ruefully: "We even wish we could have signed the [peace] agreement yesterday" - were it not for the indictments. Peace by any means necessary - even if it means shunning the world court - is now the mantra of many Ugandans recovering from an impossibly long...
...game video and everything. By the way, isn't the pre-game coin toss always so cool for Harvard? Three Columbia guys walk out to mid-field holding hands, while Brad Bagdis runs out alone, looking all baller-like. More teams should adopt the one-captain mantra...
...Buddhist monks who first sang this mantra. For a week now, they have been marching through these streets, calling peacefully for change in a country that has been ruled for almost a half-century by a barbaric military junta. Burma's monkhood and military are roughly the same size--each has 300,000 to 400,000 men--but there the similarities end. With the monks preaching tolerance and peace and the military demanding obedience at gunpoint, these protests pit Burma's most beloved institution against its most reviled...
They pour out of the Shwedagon, an immense golden pagoda that is Burma's most revered Buddhist monument, two miles north of downtown Rangoon. The monks form an unbroken, mile-long column--barefoot, chanting their haunting mantras, clutching pictures of the Buddha, their robes drenched with the late-monsoon rains. They walk briskly, stopping briefly to pray when they reach Sule Pagoda. Then they're off again, coursing through the city streets in a solid stream of red and orange, like blood vessels giving life to an oxygen-starved body. Their effect on Rangoon's residents is electrifying. At first...
...Pagoda Road, banging truncheons against shields. Behind them is an even more menacing sight: hundreds of troops marching in formation. Between the two groups is a truck with loudspeakers that announce the street is to be cleared. Miraculously, despite the bloodshed, people are still protesting, still chanting their defiant mantra: Let everyone be free from harm...