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...entanglements with slavery is “intriguing” for students and professors to explore. “I’m not going to be doing this as a presidential project,” she said. HARVARD: A PROBABLE TARGET?While Harvard, by virtue of being in northern New England, was less entangled in slavery than its peers in the South, the University nevertheless was implicated to a degree in the slave trade. Along with Brown, Harvard was mentioned in a series of class-action lawsuits beginning in 2002, in which descendants of slaves sought compensation for damages...
...date was April 10 - the long-anticipated signing of peace by Joseph Kony, a mysterious rebel leader who was once a Catholic altar boy but, for the last 20 years, has led the Lord's Resistance Army rebels out of hideouts in Congo and Sudan to terrorize northern Uganda. The sense of expectation was tangible as some rebels, dressed in gumboots, tattered combat trousers and dirty T-shirts or soccer strips, emerged, a handful at a time. Were these the advance party? Where would Kony come from? Would he even sign, we all asked ourselves as the officials took their...
...will turn up, and patience, too, is wearing thin, especially among those in the international community, which has paid over $10 million for the process. They complain that for some of the negotiators the process has become more about money and political positioning than resolving the problems of northern Uganda, long marginalized and battered...
...look of other compounds built by apocalyptic cults led by charismatic tyrants. But this is a group with a tangled history many generations deep. Renegade sects have kept polygamy alive by settling far from neighbors in places like the desert canyon lands of Utah and Arizona, the villages of northern Mexico and the alpine valleys of western Canada. They have intermarried and interbred to the point that, in the words of author Jon Krakauer, their "relationships are almost impossible to make sense of without a flowchart." One figure in Krakauer's best-selling history of the sects, Under the Banner...
...University President Drew G. Faust, a Civil War historian, added that while recent research has revealed the extent to which northern institutions were complicit in slavery and there are many examples of Harvard ties to slavery, she was also struck by the number of students in Harvard’s history who were “advocates of abolition and emancipation...