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Sasse further echoed concerns of several American students abroad over the intense mud-slinging and traditionally dirty politics that dominated the race in its final weeks...
UNHCR drivers were unable to get any aid into Sarajevo on the ground last week. Croats halted aid trucks bound for Muslim areas at roadblocks near Mostar and Tomislavgrad. Attempts to negotiate back roads, turned to mud by rain, were abandoned after one truck bearing five tons of badly needed aid slipped into a ravine...
...made clear that they were in no mood to listen to personal attacks. Early on, after the President again chided Clinton for organizing protests against the Vietnam War as a Rhodes scholar in England, one citizen asked, "Can we focus on the issues and not the personalities and the mud?" Thereafter, the debate settled into a remarkably civil exchange far better suited to Clinton's talent for rattling off multipoint plans than to Bush's attempts to defend his record. (Perot, the consensus winner of the first debate, this time appeared vague and rambling, his folksiness turned wearying.) Observers noted...
Northern Africa was a somewhat wetter place five millenniums ago, and the land was fertile in a broad swath on either side of the Nile. Many Egyptians still lived in huts made of papyrus or mud; raised wheat, barley and livestock; and paid homage to the local chiefs. Within just a few hundred years the Pharaoh Narmer would forge the entire area into the great Egyptian Empire. But recent scholarship shows that local chiefdoms were already coalescing into larger kingdoms, as they were in the neighboring land of Nubia, just upriver. As in Europe, a stable food supply created...
...ancestors of the Chinese had begun farming along the Yellow River in the north as early as 7000 B.C. Excavations at Banpo and other sites show that by the Iceman's day, farmers of the Yangshao culture were living in semiunderground circular huts built of mud and timbers on terraces overlooking the water. Communities were divided into living areas; large kilns, which turned out distinctive painted pottery; and cemeteries. The Yangshao buried goods with their dead, indicating a belief in the afterlife, but the homogeneity of the buried objects suggests that social classes had not yet appeared. Like the other...