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...appears to be effective. In Koch Goma Camp, on the outskirts of Gulu, there was a pervasive sense of excitement on the day the tour was scheduled to arrive: schoolchildren buzzed with excitement as they waited on a hill; women stood with vegetables on their head, squinting into the distance; and men stood in pairs quietly talking under the sweltering sun. Suddenly, a convoy of sport utility vehicles whirred up a cloud of orange dust as it pulled into the camp - the rebel group had arrived to meet its victims. The crowd erupted: high-pitched singing, dancing and loudly banging...
...receive members of the national assembly. "I'm going in," shouted senator Enver Baig, as he strode purposefully toward the assembled police. They melted away as he passed, then reformed their blockade. Other politicians were not so lucky. Nahid Hayat, a party worker hoping to run for office, stood in front of the police to address the crowd. Before she had a chance to speak, she was bundled into a waiting police car. "I have been given no reason to be arrested," she screamed, as the police slammed the door behind her. Asim Awan, a presenter for the local independent...
...truth is Pakistan is an artificial country, its borders drawn by British colonial administrators in a fit of expediency, its people hopelessly divided along ethnic lines. None of it mattered, democracy or not, as long as the generals stood shoulder to shoulder and held off disintegration and chaos - kept the nukes safe, out of the hands of radicals. Let's hope the generals aren't having second thoughts...
...Thank you for the article "America's Other Army," about the private security companies operating in Iraq [Oct. 29]. If the architects of the Iraq invasion had used some common sense - like deploying more troops - we wouldn't need military contractors. And if the Iraqi people had backbone and stood up to terrorists, our troops could come home. It seems that American blood is cheap to them. Gerry Turchi, Mooresville...
...take a mile," said Tom Kiley, a co-owner of the photo shop Katonah Image. Yet for any town that's ever fought a giant, the result was heartening. Maybe Katonah will lose something by having its name trademarked. But it almost certainly gains something in the way it stood up for itself. The story will surely be told for years to come...