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...Nogal bombing has the markings of I.R.A. and ETA tutelage. They point in particular to the sophisticated remote-control detonation of the car bomb. Colombia suffered a horrific rash of urban bombings just over a decade ago, when the drug lord Pablo Escobar lashed out at government efforts to rein in his cocaine cartel. The FARC is similarly piqued by Uribe's counterinsurgency efforts and recent U.S. aid increases for Colombia's weak but improving military. Last Friday, at least 16 people were killed in an explosion during a police raid in the southern city of Neiva that authorities attributed...
Within moments I learned a couple of key things. One was that your first day is no time to take over the sound system. Retail director Brendan Wittlinger keeps a tight rein on the stack of CDs, none of which were by the Beatles, Wings or even Band Aid. Basically, Brendan's style is to play that Missy Elliott album again and again until I want to kill him. I also learned that I was a little off when I decided to wear a suit...
...linked to the loss of natural support groups, as individuals in an increasingly mobile culture migrate farther and farther from home. "In the past," he says, "we lived close to our extended families in highly structured communities. People could take care of their own and rein them...
...find little acerbity in sober tales of places like the Dadaab refugee camp or Kibera, a slum in southern Nairobi. "I was shocked at what I saw, but I also had to be careful not to damage Care's standing in the community," he says, explaining his decision to rein in his biting prose. "This is primarily a fund-raising exercise." Bryson will donate all proceeds from the book to charity. African Diary is unlike any of Bryson's previous work in both subject matter and tone, but it is still sprinkled with amusing anecdotes. There's a hair-raising...
...irony of it all is that Rein reveals that he would have disliked Harvard as an undergraduate because of the “pressure.” He insists that unlike the rest of his high school class at St. Paul’s in New Hampshire, he had no interest in coming to Harvard as an undergraduate and ended up at McGill University in Canada, where he graduated in spring of 2000. “I wanted to learn French, I wanted to get out of the United States, and I wanted to learn about a new culture...