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Some Harvard affiliates actually rode into battle, and others had their lives interrupted...
...Russian President rode to power in 1999 on the promise that he alone could bring peace to Chechnya. To that end, he compelled Chechens to vote on a political solution to the conflict last March, an exercise widely dismissed as a sham because it was conducted by force. Putin did pull a token number of troops out of Chechnya and promised that he would put an end to the routine abductions and executions of Chechen civilians. Yet more than 200 people have been abducted since the vote took place. "We know for a fact that the reprisals have grown much...
Installing a legitimate new army or police force is a delicate task. U.S. special forces in Najaf recruited local men to serve as an indigenous fighting force--a couple of dozen men who were dubbed the Coalition for Iraqi National Unity--to help root out any lingering resistance. They rode into town smiling for the cameras and waving their new AK-47s. Asked whether these men might have been fighting recently for Saddam, a special-forces soldier replied, "Some of them probably were, but they have had a conversion." Outside the group's headquarters in a local factory were parked...
...Guangdong?where the disease is thought to have originated last November?an official of the local center for disease control told TIME that at least two migrant workers had died and six more were confirmed to have the disease. In a troubling precedent, a SARS-infected migrant worker who rode a long-distance bus back home to Sichuan was quarantined in the same ward with all his fellow travelers?increasing the chances they would catch the virus from him, if they hadn't already...
...Dang. The only thing that came to mind when I rode was the pressing need for more padding under my duff. But I was happy to be among the few Westerners who have had a taste of Mongolia, the rocky, remote north-central Asian country with few fences and fewer roads-the realm of Genghis Khan and a political tug toy of China and Russia until well into the 20th century. Since the Alaska-size former Soviet satellite gained independence in 1990, it has opened to travelers seeking adventure in breathtakingly pristine country. A dearth of such conveniences as electricity...