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...barricaded terrorists had finished them off, the carnage was even greater: 31 dead, over 70 wounded and a nation again shattered in the midst of a fragile attempt to rebuild after religious pogroms in March killed thousands in Gujarat. The temple gunmen were carrying leaflets in Urdu claiming membership in an unknown militant group calling itself Tehreek-e-Quasas, "Movement for Revenge," and saying that the attack was payback for the anti-Muslim killings in the spring. Indian leaders know well that in the complex physics of South Asian politics, the payback for this payback?another reprisal riot in Gujarat...
...defining feature of the Serbian political scene and of yesterday’s elections is the rivalry between reformist and traditionalist forces. The candidate of the reformist stream is Miroljub Labus, an economics expert who had secured Yugoslavia’s membership in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The main reformist force in the country and propagator of reforms is the Serbian government led by Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, who recently gave a much-praised speech at the Kennedy School of Government. The other major candidate is Vojislav Kostunica, president of Serbia and Montenegro, a traditionalist advocating...
Because of the high visibility of the sport’s debut in the 1998 Olympics, her membership on the U.S. gold medal team that year naturally leads off her resume. Her return to Harvard to win a national championship the following year, though not as widely publicized as Olympics, was just as special in Mleczko’s mind...
...NACAC needs them a hell of a lot more than they need NACAC,” he said. “If it’s a blinking match, I’ll tell you who will blink first. [NACAC membership] is not considered to be the Holy Grail. There’s talk that a lot of colleges are going to pull...
...Attendance was far from what it normally is,” Fitzsimmons said. “If they’d had a full membership there, there could well have been a different outcome...