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...Americans are particularly concerned about a peace deal Musharraf struck last September with tribal leaders in Waziristan, a mountainous region bordering Afghanistan, in which he offered them greater sovereignty in exchange for promising to kick out foreign militants. Musharraf called the agreement a success and promised President George Bush at the time that "there won't be a Taliban and there won't be an al-Qaeda." However, cross-border attacks have increased threefold since September, according to Coalition forces on the Afghan side, and two weeks ago Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice described the situation as a "disappointment...
...cancer eating the entire continent: beginning with the first successful coup in sub-Saharan Africa in Togo in 1963, there were at least 200 attempts to seize power in Africa over the following four decades, 80 or so successful. Bitter civil wars erupted, some of them tribal struggles for natural resources, some of them fueled by foreign powers. In the 1967-70 civil war in Nigeria, Ghana's regional neighbor, a million died. By the 1970s, Africa had become one of the hottest fronts in the cold war. Both superpowers propped up dictators and forced their economic policies onto their...
RETIRED. Chief Illiniwek, buckskin-clad mascot who for 81 years performed halftime "tribal" dances for the University of Illinois, despite protests from Native American groups who called the character demeaning; in Champaign-Urbana, Ill. Officials acted under pressure from the NCAA, which in 2005 barred colleges with American Indian mascots from acting as hosts for postseason events...
Institutionally, Harvard’s president is the person best able to direct overarching changes and interdisciplinary initiatives, such as the nascent Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Such projects can require the president to act as a mediator between often-tribal faculty departments, bringing together, for example, scientists and philosophers to tackle the academic riddles of the future. Past presidents, from Lawrence H. Summers to Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, have adopted a confrontational management style, attempting to force through initiatives with a blunt stick. If we, as observers of Harvard University, learned anything from the rapid downfall of former...
...early 2004, however, Noorzai says, President Karzai's brother phoned to lobby him to talk to the Americans again. "'You are a tribal leader,'" Noorzai said Wali Karzai told him. "'You can help.'" Separately, Noorzai got a call from Saitullah Khan Babar, a friend and former officer in Pakistan's military intelligence service, the ISI. The Americans, Babar told Noorzai, had proposed a meeting in Dubai, neutral turf. Warily, Noorzai agreed...