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...Nkunda is in his 40s and is married with children. He has been a soldier since 1993. •He studied psychology at the university level and is fluent in English. •He is a self-described devout Pentecostal Christian and sometimes wears a pin that says, "Rebels for Christ." He says he prays every day and claims many of his soldiers have converted to the faith. •He is a native of North Kivu, an eastern Congolese province that shares a border with Rwanda. •He is almost always photographed in a military outfit, wearing sunglases...
...even more food and activities than in the past. Attendees were able to make Hebrew name bracelets, purchase HSI t-shirts and shot glasses that proclaimed “Give peace a shot,” enter a raffle to win posters of Israel, and play “Pin Israel on the Map.” Students also had the opportunity to write notes for the Western Wall, which Levy will deliver to the Jewish holy site when she goes to Israel this winter. Those present at the event included Harvard students from across the University, professors, Cambridge residents...
...personal sense of simplicity and comfort that she hopes to bring to her Natalie Portman ’03-inspired creation, which will be the first dress, incidentally, she has ever made for someone other than herself. “I alter all of my clothes, cut things here, pin things there,” Sung says. Her past experience in fashion has been in another realm of garments: t-shirts. She started making them in high school, specializing in “screen printing, lots of hand-stitching, embroidery, beading, and...a great attention to detail...
...Thomas, The Wise Men. They were aware of their responsibilities and understood that American power would best be protected if it was shared in a network of institutions that made up a new liberal international order. Granted, George Bush is no Truman, nor Condoleezza Rice a Marshall. But to pin everything on personality ignores social and economic forces that have reshaped the shores of our world and our imagination. And in any case, it misses a significant change between the first term of President Bush and his second, during which the U.S. has relied much more on diplomacy, and much...
...truth is that in most elections, this clash of the monsters usually boils down to a pair of elderly women poll watchers--the one in the patterned sweater and sneakers is the Democrat, and the one with the rhinestone red-white-and-blue elephant pin and the sensible flats is the Republican--arguing over a few smudgy ballots in a couple of thousand precincts across America. Relax--our democracy will survive...