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...secret of Riccardi's technique is to see peacemaking not as bargaining but as an act of conversion, transforming a person who was your enemy into a mere political opponent. That's hardly the making of an alliance, but it does get adversaries talking--and that can keep them from shooting. When the technique works, even the most barbarous of characters may show a flicker of decency. On March 28 the government of Uganda signed a Sant'Egidio-negotiated peace treaty in which the warlord Joseph Kony agreed to come out of the bush and be tried before a jury...
Despite the fact that Chester French has yet to release their album, the two have carved out a career based on mere speculation, in the process blurring the divide between scene and substance...
...first real encounter with the band occurs immediately before their second performance, a 45-minute showcase on the first night of the festival. Mere moments before he’s expected onstage, Wallach strides confidently into the venue with a bouquet of flowers. Then, responding to some apparent apprehension in the half-filled room, he begins passing out flowers to some of the women in the audience, enticing them to approach the stage...
Monday, I tried to tell a high school junior on a college tour what life is like at Harvard. He wasn’t interested in the old wives’ tales he’d heard of mere graduate students loosed upon the world (they give lectures, coordinate review sessions, and worship the shape-shifter Loki), and lacked a susceptibility to that favorite sirenian suasion of the admissions department, the faculty-student ratio. Instead, he wanted to know what every Harvard applicant wants to know: Are people happy here? Might we, at day’s end, call Harvard...
...ensure credible elections that are free and fair. For this to happen, the world has to increase the international observers being sent to Nepal and start training more Nepalese to help in this process. The 50 promised by The Carter Center and 60 by the UN are mere peanuts that will hardly help. The international observers have also not been inducting local Nepalese to act as their observers in remote and unsafe-for-foreigners locations. In addition, international pressure should be put on the royal family not to interfere in the electoral process in any way. International media, especially...