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...torrent of refugees flowed past the little Rwandan village of Nkuli last week, Jonasi Ruziga stood in silence and stared. The numbers were overwhelming--more than half a million Hutu, alternately trudging through the pouring rain and panting under the tropical sun. Ruziga, a Tutsi trader, had an equally overwhelming reason for monitoring their passage. He was looking for the murderers of his children. "Yesterday evening I saw two of them," he said. "They passed here along this road. Then this morning I saw one more walking by. Just like that...
...year incumbent, Matsui is a no-nonsense legislator who mixes grass-roots values (in 1988 he sponsored legislation to give financial compensation to Japanese Americans interned during World War II) with progressive economics (he is a renowned free-trader and gets much of the credit for the passage of NAFTA). Voters in the Fifth District will find few reasons not to send him back to Washington...
...find most of the skeleton. The arm and leg bones suggested that the dead man came from genetic stock very different from that of the Indians who have lived in that part of the country for centuries. Chatters figured he had the body of an early settler or trader...
Well, it's time to shatter that idealized myth. When Columbus arrived on Cuba, Hispaniola and other islands in the Caribbean he instituted shockingly cruel and genocidal policies which rapidly decimated the populations of indigenous Arawak Indians. He was also a slave trader, and his own words condemn him. Furthermore, the claim that he "discovered" the New World is dubious--he accidentally came into contact with a culture that had existed for hundreds if not thousands of years...
...thinking. He cautions new analysts against relying too much on technology. "I tell them, 'Don't let it become a crutch to eliminate face-to-face contact.' I want them to feel an emotional stake in this process." Like all the managers, Posner faxes his orders to his trader each morning and usually doesn't trade again all day. Eighty percent of his workday is spent on the phone to companies or meeting with executives. True to his metier, he relies heavily on corporate financial statements: "They tell me what can realistically be accomplished...