Word: tribalisms
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...Ganiga longed for Joe's wealth. Black Harvest revisited the Ganiga five years later, on the eve of the long-awaited first harvest of coffee from a joint venture with Leahy that the tribe hoped would make them rich too. When harvesting was interrupted by an outbreak of tribal warfare, and international coffee prices plummeted, Connolly and Anderson were there to capture the mayhem and lost chances...
Whether they found it on the tribal battlefields of Papua New Guinea or among satraps in Sydney council politics, Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly made films that brimmed with life. Australia's most acclaimed documentary makers for two decades, they shared a prodigious partnership at work - Anderson once said they worked so well together because "he thinks I'm better than him at what we do, and I think he's better than me" - and two daughters at home. There seemed much more to come, until Anderson died of cancer in 2002, at just 51. After that, "I didn...
...University of North Dakota will use a similar approach in its bid to remain the Fighting Sioux. Says president Charles Kupchella: "We have a mission that supports Native Americans." Still, several tribes in the Dakotas have asked the school to drop the name, which Standing Rock Sioux tribal chairman Charles Murphy has called "a caricature." That term could also apply to the Savages of Southeastern Oklahoma State and the Redmen of Wisconsin's Carthage College. But both schools cite their educational partnerships with Native American groups and say they will make a community decision about the names. --By Jeninne...
Western diplomats say that so far, the ayatullahs appear to be acting defensively rather than offensively. An encouraging sign is that even Shi'ite beneficiaries of Tehran exhibit strains of Iraqi and Arab nationalism; and many have strong familial and tribal ties with the Sunnis. "We are sons of Iraq. The circumstances that forced me to leave did not change my identity," says Badr leader al-Amri. He's proud of his cooperation with the Revolutionary Guard to battle Saddam but says it extended only "to the limit of our interests." An informed Western observer thinks that while those groups...
...long-oppressed Shi'ites to remove U.S. forces so Iraq can get on with forming an Islamic republic? Why, then, is there sufficient support to fuel an insurgency that shows no signs of waning? Why, then, are nearly all of Afghanistan's provinces outside Kabul effectively ruled by tribal leaders and warlords? Philip K. Lentz Amman, Jordan...