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...life of fear. When the Sudanese military captured the nearby city of Rumbek in the mid-'80s, the villagers walked for two weeks to a quiet area in another tribe's lands, far from the fighting. They weathered famine, sometimes eating leaves, and when the southern rebel army retook the city in 1997, began their slow trickle back. But they have been too poor and felt too vulnerable to put down roots. Outside government-held towns, there are no telephones in southern Sudan, no electrical grids, water pipes, sewage lines or paved roads. Even Rumbek, the closest thing the rebel...
...second, Harvard retook a one-run lead. Freshman third baseman Josh Klimkiewicz led off with a homer before the Crimson returned to small ball. Freshman leftfielder Chris Mackey drew a walk and was moved over to second on junior centerfielder Bryan Hale’s groundout...
...Iraq. He has been a ruler, says Coughlin, who "has always had one eye on history." He has longed for his name to go down in Arab history alongside those of the culture's great heroes, like Nebuchadnezzar, who drove the Jews into Babylonian captivity, and Saladin, who retook Jerusalem from the Christian Crusaders. He wanted to fulfill the modern-day promise of Egypt's great nationalist Gamal Abdul Nasser, restoring Arab unity and the greater Arab nation to its rightful place in the world. In recent years the standard-bearer of secular Baathism even turned to prayer to exploit...
...School, he runs marathons, sleeps little more than four hours a night, has written a best seller on bioterrorism and during congressional breaks likes to fly to places like Uganda and Sudan to practice surgery. He also has great organizational skills. The White House won credit when the G.O.P. retook the Senate last November, but it was Frist who managed the takeover behind the scenes as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee...
Colombia gave peace a chance. In 1999 the government effectively ceded the FARC a territory the size of Switzerland as a condition for negotiations. Until this year, when the government retook nominal control, this supposedly demilitarized zone had provided the guerillas a safe haven to train, improve their equipment and learn tactics from Irish Republican Army veterans. The guerillas took less interest in the peace talks, always demanding more concessions for the privilege of their company...