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...another vested interest in their landscape isn't universally thrilling in Greenland, which has been a strategic military outpost for the U.S. and Denmark since the Cold War. Inuit hunters were displaced when the American military set up camp at the Thule Air Base on the island's northwest shore in the 1950s, and Inuit hunters were the first to be exposed when a B-52 carrying hydrogen bombs crashed near the base in 1968. "We are fragile, both in terms of the climate crisis and because of the military buildup in the Arctic," says Aqqaluk Lynge, president of Inuit...
...even, sorrowful precision that enrages as it informs. Its anger is the stronger for being deployed with such classic restraint. And the stories he chooses to share speak for thousands of other lives that are, and always will be, untold. A powerful complement to such novels as A Distant Shore (which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize three years ago), Foreigners is really one piece of a mosaic that Phillips has been carefully and patiently putting together all his life. Britain cannot know itself, he suggests, until it acknowledges all of its parts...
...course it’s better to stop terror plots early than never (provided innocent citizens don’t get caught up in the mix), but the recently broken-up plots seemed more like efforts to shore up a political image than to halt a ticking time bomb...
...playing experience.Though East Carolina took the top spot with a team score of 842, the Crimson can proceed with quiet confidence in the depth of its young roster. “As our captain, I’m exceedingly proud of our team,” junior captain Mike Shore said. “We performed well and exceeded expectations.”The Mid-Pines Intercollegiate tested the field’s endurance with three rounds, and playing thirty-six holes on Monday rewarded those with a consistent swing and focus.Harvard performed well on this long day with...
...G.O.P. candidates so unwilling to face Hispanic voters this year? In one word: immigration. Most Republican platforms on the divisive issue - which are variations of beefing up border controls - serve to shore up their base, but anger most immigrant communities, not just Hispanics. "For the Republicans, if they had a debate in Spanish, on Univision, they would get as many questions on immigration and so they would have to speak about immigration in the same way they speak about immigration on CNN on MSNBC and all the other networks," said Sergio Bendixon, a leading pollster of Latino voting trends...