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...Ethnic Tinderbox Although the Burmese majority faces plenty of repression, there's no question that the junta reserves its worst brutality for ethnic groups. International human-rights organizations have documented a wide array of abuses against minorities, ranging from forced labor and army conscription to mass rape and village relocations that have displaced 500,000 people in eastern Burma alone. Complicating matters, some ethnic groups are not Buddhist in a country where the junta celebrates that faith and often persecutes those who do not. (The Kachin, Chin and many Karen, for example, are Christian.) Career trajectories for many ethnic minorities...
...asked ourselves what face we could give to the virus, and it couldn't be a pretty face.' DIRK SILZ, creative director for Germany's new "AIDS Is a Mass Murderer" campaign, explaining the choice of Adolf Hitler as the virus's human embodiment...
...this grim, gray-faced man? Where are the smile, the twinkling eyes, the great white mane of hair? Virginia Duquette, CENTERVILLE, MASS...
...sharp shock of the 2008 financial crisis paralyzed the U.S. economy. Mass layoffs have been at a record high, flooding the labor market with job hunters. Six years of manufacturing-job losses were compressed into 18 months, overwhelming retraining programs. The collapse of home values and the tightening of credit make worker mobility a moot issue. Instead of connecting the jobless to new jobs, the employment system has seized up. After 33 weeks of searching for work, Whitfield is looking warily to December, when his unemployment insurance ends...
WORCESTER, Mass.—The sport of football is a funny thing. On any given Saturday, it can giveth and it can taketh away. That was certainly the case for Harvard football this weekend, as it witnessed highs and lows before ultimately falling to Holy Cross (3-0), 27-20.“The bottom line is that we played hard, but they made a few more plays, and we made a few more mistakes,” Crimson coach Tim Murphy said. “And that makes the difference in the game.”Harvard...