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...lack of government and extreme poverty make it an ideal breeding ground for piracy, and the Cold War's end helped make that possible. "I can remember driving down the roads in Somalia, and you'd see all these scrap heaps of MiGs and tanks" from the 1969-1991 reign of Siad Barre, the Somali dictator allied with the Soviet Union, Zinni says. "During the Cold War, one side or the other kept authoritarian regimes in power who controlled this sort of thing...
This past Saturday, CSA hosted its annual Iron Chef Showdown between various cultural groups. This year, the Harvard African Students Association challenged challenged CSA’s reign in an all-out clash of cultures that drew in club members, students, and even pre-frosh...
...detaches them, spaces them, erases them. / One places them like a painter, as one would draw or embroider. / One makes little piles, with no punctuation, ‘almost begging to write.’” Étienne goes on to compare writing to trying to reign in and ride a horse, “so that the race won will be the text.” Even her choice of form is reflective. Though Étienne writes in sonnet form, her sonnets initially look more like prose than poetry: “When you?...
...Mesic government is now under fire from various quarters for allowing organized crime - which flourished under the reign of autocratic President Franjo Tudjman, who led Croatia's independence struggle - to grow even more rampantly after the country's transition to democracy. "The authorities are obviously incompetent to stand up to organized crime," said opposition MP Vladimir Sisljagic at a press conference on Monday. "This situation is a result of 18 years of turning a blind eye to war profiteering and gangsterism...
...Indian Ocean island nation of the Maldives has weathered cyclones and tsunamis, but never before has it experienced sweeping change of the sort ushered in on Oct. 28. By the next day, it was clear that President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom - whose 30-year reign marked him as Asia's longest serving leader - had been toppled in the country's first-ever democratic elections by a man whom he had imprisoned just a decade ago. After coming second in multi-party polls earlier in October, 41-year-old Mohamed Nasheed beat Gayoom in a run-off contest by a nearly...