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...them impunity from prosecution. Charges of extrajudicial killings, rapes, abductions and torture were leveled against them with chilling regularity during the 1990s. The Indian government has consistently denied Kashmiri calls to demilitarize, saying the terror infrastructure across the border in Pakistan has yet to be dismantled. Resentment continues to simmer over the "disappearance" of more than 8,000 Kashmiris during the insurgency. Human rights organizations claim the missing were killed by security forces. Kashmiri demands for greater cross-border travel and trade relations with Pakistan have also seen slow progress due to continuing distrust between the two countries. Meanwhile, Kashmiri...
...spot appearances. Even Sean Penn and Madonna emceed in Los Angeles, and she promised to join Mia Farrow, Anjelica Huston and Meryl Streep at the New York-New Jersey tour finale in Giants Stadium. During the eleven-day journey, 114,000 concertgoers paid a hefty $36 each to simmer in what they hoped would be the best sounds of summer. Few were disappointed. Peter Gabriel gained legions of new fans with an electric delivery of his hit Sledgehammer as well as with Biko, dedicated to the South African martyr. In Atlanta, the Police played together for the first time...
...never really went away, of course: the feud between the majority Sinhalese and minority Tamils, which has killed some 70,000 people since 1983, merely settled to a low simmer, with hundreds dying in skirmishes over the years and full-fledged battles breaking out in 2006 and continuing into 2007. But the abandonment of a political solution has burst whatever remained of the dam that held Sri Lanka's bloodshed in check. In the first days of this new year, fighting has killed more than 150 combatants on both sides, including the Tigers' head of military intelligence...
...again (he will be only 67 in January) had things gone differently. But Cheney is even less popular than Bush, whose ratings move in a narrow band between the high 20s and mid-30s and have been dragging down fellow Republicans. Even if the war in Iraq continues to simmer down or the economy firms, Republicans aren't likely to get much credit...
...poem "Practical Aim" from Like a Seed, Wong asks: "After deep loss, what does the heart/ learn that it has not already understood/ about regret? When all light finally/ forsakes a room, do we take the time/ to interrogate the dark, and to what end?" Other poems simmer with sexual energy; an aircraft landing on the tarmac becomes heady foreplay with the "slow lick of its wheels/ against the runway's/ belly...