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...they had 'Caucasoid-like' characteristics. There's a big difference." Says Owsley: "[Kennewick Man] is not North American looking, and he's not tied in to Siberian or Northeast Asian populations. He looks more Polynesian or more like the Ainu [an ethnic group that is now found only in northern Japan but in prehistoric times lived throughout coastal areas of eastern Asia] or southern Asians...
...American in Paris, Gigi and Le Divorce Walk through the garden of the Palais Royal, where Louis XIV played as a boy. Some shopping at the surrounding stores and boutiques is essential, followed by dinner at Le Grand Véfour (17 Rue Beaujolais), located at the northern entrance of the garden. Be sure to ask for the booth where [the French novelist] Colette sat. Then why not catch the show at Le Moulin Rouge (82 Boulevard de Clichy). Everyone should, at least once...
What lies at the heart of the sectarian violence in Iraq is not so much religious dispute as it is a very secular competition for power and prominence in the new Iraq. Iraq is not all that different from Northern Ireland or Bosnia, where religion paraded as ethnicity and became a vehicle for communal rivalries. In the vacuum of power left by the fall of Saddam Hussein, the game of numbers has favored Shi'as, who are 60% of the population. It is for this reason that they wholeheartedly embraced democracy. Disgruntled Sunnis, on the other hand, vested their fortunes...
...stories of slaughter and desecration were immediately verifiable, since the violence and curfews--extended through last weekend--restricted the movements of journalists. But the authenticity of the allegations mattered less than their effect on a scared and sullen population. Omar Saad, 73, saw his Sunni mosque in the northern Baghdad district of al-Shaab being attacked twice on the same day by armed Shi'ite militias dressed in black--the uniform of the Mahdi Army. The mosque's guards fought off the attack until they ran out of ammunition. The militias then entered the premises and trashed it, torching everything...
...Iraqi constitution recognizes the Kurds' de facto autonomy in northern Iraq, allowing them to keep the revenues from any new oil fields and to maintain their own armed forces. But the status of the oil rich northern city of Kirkuk remains a flashoint, because it is claimed not only by Kurds and Arabs, but also by the Turkmen minority - less than 5 percent of the population, but which carries the backing of Turkey, which is vehemently opposed to an independent Kurdish entity...