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...ever confused Myron Rolle for an average college student. For one thing, the 6'2" safety at Florida State has NFL scouts drooling; for another, he's already earned his pre-med degree in two-and-a-half years. But his itinerary last weekend was particularly extraordinary. On Nov. 22, the Seminoles' safety jetted off to Birmingham, Ala., where he sat for a final interview for the Rhodes Scholarship, generally viewed as the country's most prestigious. After learning he was one of the 32 student-athletes in the country to earn the honor - and with it, two years...
...more than two decades of migration from poor rural areas to faster-growing, coastal cities - is most visible at the Guangzhou train station, where hundreds of migrants, all bearing suitcases and shopping bags crammed with their worldly belongings, sit outside for hours waiting to board trains home. On Nov. 26, Zhang De Jun, 35, was one of them. For 10 years, he said, he worked in a sweater factory not far from Dongguan. His wife, seated next to him, worked at a toy factory. Both had lost their jobs. Like millions of other migrants, Zhang said each month...
...Dongguan, it already has. On the evening of Nov. 25, another large toy factory here, Kai Da Manufacturing, laid off more than 600 of its workers because of slowing production. According to participants and eyewitnesses to what followed, a large group of the workers gathered in the front courtyard of the factory demanding to know what compensation they would receive. At first, a company manager told them that anyone with a good work record and less than five years' service would receive less than 10,000 RMB - less than $1,500 at today's exchange rates. Anyone with a good...
...crimes. The U.N. accuses his forces of executing enemies and raping women and indicted him for war crimes in September 2005. This month, it accused his forces - now numbering an estimated 7,000-8,000 - of taking part in the massacre of at least 50 people on Nov. 5 in the village of Kinwanja, a 20-minute walk down the road. This may explain the attempt to project a gentler face. "I think Kiwanja was a big tactical error," says Tatiana Carayannis, Congo expert at the Social Science Research Council in New York. In other words, this...
...refugees. And with his forces closing in on the regional capital Goma and facing a collapsing national army and a weak and isolated President, his threat to take the Congolese capital Kinshasa is suddenly one to take seriously. Nkunda's decision to hold a rally and press conference on Nov. 22 in Rutshuru, newly captured by his forces, was a chance to discover what kind of leader he might prove to be. (See pictures of Congo on the brink...