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...secret of Riccardi's technique is to see peacemaking not as bargaining but as an act of conversion, transforming a person who was your enemy into a mere political opponent. That's hardly the making of an alliance, but it does get adversaries talking--and that can keep them from shooting. When the technique works, even the most barbarous of characters may show a flicker of decency. On March 28 the government of Uganda signed a Sant'Egidio-negotiated peace treaty in which the warlord Joseph Kony agreed to come out of the bush and be tried before a jury...
...August 2006, TIME's Baghdad Bureau Chief, Bobby Ghosh, wrote a cover story called "Life in Hell," an up-close, first-person account of life in Iraq's capital. It was a powerful, resonant story, and even though Bobby has since moved to New York, I thought it would be a good idea for him to go back to Baghdad to write a sequel around the fifth anniversary of the war. I didn't have to press him, because he'll tell anyone who asks that he misses Iraq. Having spent five years there, he's deeply invested...
...through the Midtown Tunnel, between Manhattan and Queens. O'Connor trudged to the Queens side, where he found a mechanic--who happened to be a Jordanian Catholic, recognized the Cardinal and rushed to his aid. O'Connor recalls Ratzinger, up and running again, saying "There is every sort of person in New York, and they're all helpful." A few minutes later, just after he stepped out onto the curb at J.F.K., someone rear-ended the car, shattering the back window...
...College Theater Studio. An innovative hybrid of video, opera, live theater, various versions of the Faust myth, and several internet components, Miller’s thesis defies easy categorization. “I came up with the Faust framework because Faust is a person who’s trapped between two worlds,” Miller says. “In the original, it’s sort of the real world and the spiritual world. In my version it’s someone who’s trapped in between the world of reality and the world of virtual...
...tough to make safety alert programs mandatory. “There’s no law that says you can require somebody to put their information in the system,” he said. “Your cell phone number and e-mail address are your personal property.” But Crum said that communities, schools, businesses, and especially police departments are nevertheless starting to recognize the importance of alert programs. “With just a few clicks, one person can alert everyone in the way they want to receive the message,” he said...