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...peace accord signed last September with tribal leaders in North Waziristan, the Pakistani government agreed to scale down its operations in the area if local militants would refrain from attacking government troops and would end cross-border raids into Afghanistan. On that front, the agreement has clearly failed - cross-border attacks have increased threefold since September, according to U.S. military officials. Many of those have been bomb attacks on government officials and police officers in provincial capitals such as Khost. Last year, Hajji Muslim was nearly killed by a remote-detonated IED that blew apart his car and left...
...second movement of the piece, in 1953. With an invigorating prestissimo, Lipkind delivered the love-struck composer’s return to reality with notes that flew so quickly from the bow, it was as if a rustling wind blew into the room and ran with the scale...
...Loach's film encounters its largest structural problem. Basically, he gathers most of his flying column figures in a room and sets them to yelling at one another about whether the half-loaf of freedom offered by the treaty with the Brits can satisfy the national hunger for full-scale independence. He gives the ameliorists a fair hearing, but most decide to return to the opposition. Despite the impassioned rhetoric of the meeting, it is, admittedly, a stage wait. Yet it is also, I think, a measure of Loach's high intentions that he gives it to us in full...
...giving up ... This summer, based on [all] the various proposals I have received, I'm going to generate a [legislative] green paper on universal suffrage. I'm not talking about intermediate steps. I'm talking about how Hong Kong can achieve universal suffrage-in terms of time scale, in terms of design, in terms of how we end up getting there from here. People can consult and discuss. And then I will make a recommendation to the central government in Beijing. I will resolve the question of universal suffrage totally, completely, within my next term...
...took place in Europe over the last century.“The Spanish Civil War is typically understood as a prelude or rehearsal to World War II,” Epps says.Furthermore, the war inspired countless works of art that are still valued today. The atrocity of the large scale bombing of the city of Guernica, which resulted in immense loss of life in 1937, led to the creation one of the best-known works of art of the 20th century. “[The bombing] is what sparked Picasso’s ‘Guernica...