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Call it witchcraft if you like, but such rural healing is a major reason that nearly 95,000 demobilized soldiers and 5 million refugees have been absorbed back into society. In less than five years, Mozambique (pop. 18 million) has forged cohesion out of the animosities that tore it apart. The revered practices of communal tradition have succeeded, better than any modern forms of psychotherapy, in restoring a sense of unity to Mozambique's deeply riven clans. "National reconciliation started in the communities themselves," says Roberto Chavez, the World Bank director in Mozambique. "They were the main factor in bringing...
Unfortunately for the Crimson, that opportunity will not come. Folkl, the Cardinal's leading scorer and rebounder and the 1997 NCAA Player of the Year in volleyball, tore her anterior cruciate ligament and suffered damage to meniscus cartilage in her left knee during a routine lay-up drill in practice on Tuesday...
Folkl, a second-team All-American and Player ofthe Year candidate, tore the anterior cruciate andmedial collateral ligaments in her left kneeduring practice on Tuesday and will miss the restof the Tournament. The loss of Folkl will clearlyhurt Stanford significantly...
...Cardinal may also have to face the Crimsonwithout another one of its stars, senior forwardVenessa Nygaard. Nygaard, an Honorable MentionAll-American, tore her ACL in the regular-seasonfinale against Oregon St. The 6'1" standoutaverages 14.9 points per game, shooting anoutstanding 46 percent from three-point land...
...less every time. If Korea was not a good war, Vietnam was a distinctly bad one. The 15-year struggle in Indochina was even bloodier, more costly and harder to understand than Korea, and its support ebbed away. As the war wore on, it filled U.S. streets with demonstrators, tore up university campuses, split society and families, dragged down a President and came close to destroying the Army. While the G.I.s of World War II were loved, the grunts of Vietnam, no longer "our boys" in the same way, were reviled and sometimes spit...