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...around the shelter with practiced confidence. When he reaches the inner bunker, Khan pulls a blanket around his shoulders and peers out of a small window. It is from here that, since 1989, he has watched thousands of Indian and Pakistani artillery shells describe golden arcs as they split the air of the valley below. "I suppose we were lucky," he says, of surviving 14 years of incoming Pakistani fire. "Our crops spoiled, and our goats and cattle starved because we were too scared to go out, but nobody died. In the next village, a girl was killed and five...
...Like thousands of Kashmiris, Khan found himself living on the front line of what would become Asia's most bitter conflict when the U.N. drew a Line of Control through Kashmir in 1949, dividing the disputed Himalayan region into Indian and Pakistani parts. Because the Line of Control also split the area around Khan's village of Uroosa, he was cut off from all but his most immediate family. The divide deepened in 1989, when separatist rebels, incensed at India's heavy-handed rule of its only Muslim-majority state, began an uprising in the meadows of the Kashmir valley...
...percent of undergraduates who said they disagree with the verdict remain split between “somewhat” and “strongly” opposing the outcome...
...Shiites win first Iraqi election by huge margin. Sunnis and Kurds refuse to be part of a Shiite-dominated Iraq, civil war ensues, Iraq is split into 3 countries. Bush blames the Democrats, but loses the election anyway. Karl Spisak Covington...
...Wesley Clark captures the Democratic nomination after a series of continuing Dean gaffes. In turn, the angered and vengeful Dean breaks from the Democratic Party in a huff and runs independently in the 2004 general election. In his own Bull Moose-like way, Dean manages to split the Democratic vote, allowing G.W. to cruise to a second term. To top it off, Dean refuses to concede and declares his campaign a "Victory for America". Matthew M. Miller Pittsburgh...