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...Beyond the turmoil and political intrigue looms the very real chance that Nepal might join the region's sorry list of failing states - populated already by Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Besides forging alliances and staging elections, the country and its politicians need to steel themselves for the thorny task of drafting a constitution that reconciles its feuding factions and enfranchises all its kaleidoscope of ethnic groups. "This is a crisis hundreds of years in the making," says S.D. Muni, a Nepal scholar formerly at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. "Whole groups have never been in the political structure...
...Mellone, who chairs the Harvard Allston Task Force—a mayor-appointed group of Allston residents—said he was optimistic about what Havard’s expansion would mean for his neighborhood...
Harry Mattison, who is also a member of the task force, said that he had “tremendous doubts” that the benefits will directly impact the community...
...last month.) And while he is recognized as a seasoned political campaigner, critics have called Samak a lackluster administrator who as governor preferred to focus on his TV show than visit neighborhoods flooded during Bankok's annual monsoon. Panitan says it is questionable whether he is up to the task of solving Thailand's complex political and economic problems...
...Monday, Brussels took a small but significant step to that end. E.U. foreign ministers formally gave the go-ahead for the Union's biggest-ever peacekeeping force outside Europe. A 3,500-strong mission will depart on February 1 for Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR), with the task of protecting refugees fleeing from the neighboring Sudanese province of Darfur and others displaced by internal fighting...