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...this time, in exactly the kind of stodgy corporate campaign he once took a special pleasure in trying to destroy. But as Obama surged and Clinton fell behind, Ickes settled into a more familiar role as sideman to a long shot. Even inside Hillaryland, Ickes is something of a rebel. One part of that is simply his years: at 68, he is twice (and in a few cases, three times) the age of his colleagues. He is allergic to e-mail and loads his pockets down each morning with extra cell-phone batteries to keep up with the pace...
...four U.S. defense contractors and a Colombian police officer, on a routine surveillance flight looking for rural cocaine laboratories, made an emergency landing in southern Colombia. The area is a stronghold of the fierce Marxist guerrillas known as the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, or FARC. Rebel soldiers swarmed over the shattered plane, shooting and killing its U.S. pilot, Thomas Janis, and the Colombian officer, Luis Cruz. They stripped the remaining Americans -Keith Stansell, Thomas Howes and Marc Gonsalves - of their clothes and belongings, put the men in chains and led them toward the mountainous rain forest...
...favorite nickname for Harvard has always been “The Kremlin on the Charles.” There is something subversive in the name that touches the inner rebel in me—the idea that my school, however idealized by U.S. News & World Reports and The New York Times, is considered by some (or many) Americans to be a bastion of elitist, pinko revolutionaries...
Then, on April 10, as we waited, rebel negotiators appeared, sparking renewed excitement, only to report a hitch. Kony wanted clarification on what form of justice he would have to face should he sign the deal. To most of the people waiting for Kony, the delay of a day didn't seem like such a bad thing after over two decades of war, during which tens of thousands had been killed and some two million displaced. But, retreating to a bush camp - where, thanks to a team of professional caterers airlifted in by the United Nations, we feasted...
...quickly revealed that the LRA's top negotiator was sacked amid reports he had stolen tens of thousands of dollars and failed to deliver a letter from the Ugandan President to Kony guaranteeing his safety. And then, despite days of waiting, no one could contact the rebel leader, who was already elusive but has become even more so since he executed his deputy late last year. Reports of further clashes and summary executions within the ranks trickled back into the camp from elders who were dispatched to find out what was going...