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...unmitigated success. "It's almost embarrassing," says Meiring, who has traveled to places such as Rwanda and Sri Lanka to talk about his country's experience. "It seems that people think we found the perfect solution." Archbishop Tutu has recently been applying the lessons to the fractured society of Northern Ireland, where he hopes bringing victims and killers face-to-face in unofficial meetings shown on television can help break the stranglehold of hatred and recrimination. Yet while Meiring says the trc was a vital part of "our healing" and "profoundly important in creating a new South Africa," he also...
...final game on Saturday by a score of 12-3 in Oneonta, NY. Earlier in the day the Crimson had beaten Queens College and Utica handily, 14-3 and 12-3, respectively.These three Saturday games were the first games of league play for Harvard (10-3, 2-1 CWPA Northern Division).The Crimson will play at Blodgett pool its first home game against division and Ivy rival Brown next Friday at eight.“It’s always nice to play in our own pool,” said senior goaltender Lydia Gardner...
...hollow argument that the Sinhalese and Tamils are fundamentally and irreconcilably different. That false division was based on the idea that the two groups could not live under a single administration because neither cared to learn the other's language. But today many people in the Tamil-dominated northern capital, Jaffna, do speak very functional Sinhalese. Many Tamils and Sinhalese have grown to respect one another's ethnic identity and language. If only the radicals and the ever pessimistic pundits would let the people decide their future, Sri Lanka could certainly creep back toward peaceful stability. Ashoka Weerakkody Colombo...
...there isn't necessary anymore." Nof doesn't travel there either, mostly because her husband forbids it. "We used to go a lot. We'd hop around to New York, L.A., Las Vegas," she says wistfully. "But my husband is from Ra's al Khaymah?that's the most northern emirate?and one of the bombers on the 9/11 planes was from there." Instead, they go to London, where Nof's husband prefers that she not wear the abaya. "It attracts attention," she says. "Although without it, my mother's friends pass by and don't realize...
...Tuesday night, two crude devices-unidentified explosives packed into pressure cookers and fitted with a timer-exploded within minutes of each other at a temple and a train station in Varanasi, the greatest of all Hindu pilgrimage centers on the Ganges in northern India. Police say 21 people were killed and more than 60 injured. Fearing a violent Hindu backlash, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appealed for calm and put security forces on high alert across the country...