Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sudanese guerrilla bands of Garang, who went to university with Museveni and who even sent his own troops to fight. But Museveni is not just helping his buddies: he wants quiet, friendly borders in order to shut down three guerrilla groups that continue to plague parts of northern and western Uganda...
BELFAST: We've never been quite this far down the road of peace before. Today's historic announcement ? that the British government would invite Sinn Fein to take part in Northern Ireland peace talks ? was almost entirely a result of another historic event, the Labor Party's recent election victory. Tony Blair's administration was able to take the six-week-old IRA ceasefire on trust, in a way that John Major couldn't have done without it looking like backpedaling...
Bonfire of the Techies? The Burning Man festival of 21st-century-style paganism begins tomorrow in the northern Nevada desert...
Once on the public lands of northern Nevada, where the rules are few and the possibilities infinite, Burning Man blossomed into a full-fledged happening. By word of mouth, via friend of a friend, with photocopied flyers posted in music stores, Burning Man quietly gathered a tribe of hundreds each summer to partake in the meaningless but mesmerizing ritual. And there, in its seclusion, it might still be, if it weren't for cyberspace...
DIED. NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN, 48, mesmerizing singer who brought the mystical music of the Sufis of northern India and Pakistan to a global stage, becoming one of the superstars of world music; after suffering cardiac arrest during a trip to Britain to seek medical treatment for chronic liver and weight problems; in London. For 600 years, Khan's family had been singers in the qawwali tradition, a style that built layer upon layer of increasingly intense music that demanded ferocious vocal control and culminated in whirling peaks of ecstasy. Khan not only revived qawwali's popularity in his native...