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...body weakened, I thought of my grandfather who had died of thirst in a communist jail. I wondered whether I, in my freedom, was about to suffer a similar fate. Perhaps I was being punished for my lack of filial duty. I had contravened the ancient Chinese custom that dictates: "When your parents are still alive, don't wander far from home...
...chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, coincidentally issued a report last week on why race relations were bad in Bradford. Among other failings, it criticized politicians for making quiet deals with neighborhood ethnic leaders rather than tackling underlying problems. He sees hope in the young, who say they thirst to know other ethnic groups. Bradford's élite, gathered to hear Ouseley at the local football club (next to a mosque), wondered if his proposed solutions, like diversity audits of government agencies and a multicultural study center, could solve problems so entrenched. But stunned out of their complacency, they...
With so much blame to go around and such thirst for revenge, neither side's leadership seems willing or able to find a way out. Sharon called the deaths a "horrific murder" and ordered a missile strike on Yasser Arafat's Fatah offices in Gaza City, which wounded 20 Palestinians. But Sharon is caught between his hard-line constituents' demands to raise an iron hand against the Palestinians and the outside world's pleas to pursue a diplomatic solution. Even as fresh blood soaked the soil of the disputed land, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres was in Europe searching...
...unlikely that America?s thirst for vengeance will be sated by scientific theory. We are, as a nation, very much in favor of treating child criminals as adults - a recent ABC news poll showed 55 percent of us believe the crime, not the perpetrator?s age, should be the determining factor in sentencing...
...First of the new mergers was that of South Africa's Kalahari Gemsbok National Park and Botswana's Gemsbok National Park to create the Kgalagadi - meaning "land of thirst" - a 38,000-sq-km wilderness in which tourists and animals can move freely across the two countries' borders. Since the park's formal opening last May, tourist traffic has increased threefold to around 150,000 visitors a year. A Peace Parks Club offers tours that include tracking wild game on foot with experienced San, the indigenous bushmen of the Kalahari...