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...Chadian rebels as a proxy army to take down the Déby government. French Defense Minister Hervé Morin put both of those elements together when he described the timing of the offensive as "directly linked" with the pending EU peacekeeping deployment, whose presence in Chad - although neutral - "was going to interfere with rebel plans...
...taxi going from Jakarta's airport into town after completing a tour of the U.S. as a student leader - a trip made possible through a program initiated by Suharto, Sukarno's successor. The streets were quiet and I asked the driver why. He replied in a neutral voice that Sukarno had just passed away. After the chaos and isolationism of the Sukarno years, my student movement had supported Suharto's vision of stability and economic growth. Nevertheless, I felt a sad sense of passage - and anticlimax - at Sukarno's death. Nobody talked about it, because he had disappeared from public...
...only way to have no losers in Kosovo is through the supranational philosophy embodied by the EU. Sadly, the EU has already taken sides in favor of Kosovo’s imminent independence, joining Serbia and Kosovo in the failed mindset of the past. But only a neutral EU can win the trust and commitment of both Serbia and Kosovo. This step must be reversed in order to attain peace without victory. The Serbia-Kosovo standoff will certainly not be resolved in the editorial pages of The Crimson. But the point is that, along current lines of thinking, it cannot...
...winning acceptance of Titanic as a badge of honor for all of Belfast faces an all-too-familiar hurdle. Few symbols are regarded as neutral in a city where neighborhoods, education and even sports are still segregated along Catholic-Protestant lines. Many Catholics see Belfast shipbuilding as an exclusively Protestant industry, in which discrimination was endemic. In one notorious incident back in July 1920, a Protestant mob drove Catholic employees out of the Harland and Wolff shipyard, beating them with sticks. Fifty years later, as Northern Ireland's Troubles were dawning, only 400 of the shipyard's 10,000 employees...
...Germany - further confirming that the mutation started with the Fry immigrants. (The researchers believe the genetic change either originated with George Fry or his wife, or that it began with a Fry in England, who died before passing it further.) "These mutations all start somewhere, most of them are neutral, some are beneficial, occasionally you get one that is harmful," says Deb Neklason, lead researcher of the study, published this month in the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology...