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...neglect. In a paper he presented to Parliament two years ago, Home Minister Shivraj Patil said that "Naxalites operate in [a] vacuum created by [an] absence of administrative and political institutions." The Naxalites, Patil said, "take advantage of the disenchantment prevalent among the exploited segments of the population" to "offer an alternative system of governance which promises emancipation ... through the barrel...
...Making Nice Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama's offer to hold direct talks with the leaders of Iran and North Korea gave me an idea: perhaps Obama could visit Burma and persuade General Than Shwe to accept full-scale international aid [May 26]. This would be a good warm-up exercise and would give Obama a taste of negotiating with a stubborn, psychopathic dictator. Ohn Kyaw, Withcott, Queensland...
Taryn Simon Her photographs offer a look at some of America's remaining unknown corners...
...removal order--and phoned Hillary Clinton's office seeking support. Two weeks ago, the First Lady ended her new syndicated newspaper column with a plea for fewer restrictions on interracial adoptions, writing that "skin color [should] not outweigh the more important gift of love that adoptive parents want to offer...
...Brazil as elsewhere, the tragedy of childhood is the absence of a male parent to offer a strong, responsible role model. Linha de Passe shows how the young create their own connections. As Salles notes, when fatherhood is missing, they form a brotherhood...