Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Northeast remained the most intensely segregated region, with about half of its back students in schools that are 90-100 percent non-white...
Coverage of local issues in a newspaper that serves the Harvard community is inherently difficult. Many Harvard students, it appears, think that nothing goes on outside the boundaries of the Yard. Occasionally, The Crimson admits otherwise, and covers news from Cambridge, Boston and surrounding areas. The "City and Region" section, which last appeared on Wednesday, is a good example. Often the site of mildly amusing and very lengthy feature stories about the joys of Harvard Square business ownership, the section nevertheless attempts to cover such diverse issues as Boston news analysis and Cambridge city politics...
...political demands," rebel spokesman Raphael Ghenda told France Info today. "Mobutu must be deposed from power and the Alliance must be assured of a democratic transition." Kabila once was friendly with Tshisekedi and his opposition party. But as the rebels advance south towards Lubumbashi and the mineral-rich Shaba region, their leader simply has no more need for a friend in the government. "Kabila holds absolutely all the cards," says TIME's Peter Graff. "Opposition or not, Tshisekedi is still a member of the Kinshasa political elite, and though he has some popular support, Kabila doesn't owe him anything...
...which the man responsible for it has insulated himself from the despair and the destitution. For more than 30 years Mobutu Sese Seko has imposed an uneasy unity on nearly 250 tribes strung across an expanse of Central Africa the size of Western Europe. The natural richness of this region and the willingness of Western governments to bankroll his regime have enabled Zaire's President to indulge in an uninterrupted saturnalia of misrule and kleptomania. He has squandered his country's wealth, ravaged its resources and impoverished its citizens--all while adroitly managing to remain untouched by the consequences...
...under high-power microscopes. What they are looking for is the freckling of brownish plaques and blackish tangles that are the telltale marks of Alzheimer's. While such blemishes may show up in virtually any area of the brain, they are usually densest in the hippocampus, the seahorse-shaped region that is critical to memory...