Word: tribalized
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...power of symbols: two men, old enemies, who got over it because the needs are so pressing that they now work together. It's a model for unlikely partnerships of the kind that progress demands, partnerships among doctors and pastors and moguls and lawyers and activists and tribal chiefs and health ministers and all the frontline angels of mercy everywhere...
...violent death came to Kala Dhaka, in spades. A 7.6-magnitude earthquake slammed into the Himalayas. Entire villages were devastated; in an instant, stone houses turned into burial mounds. The Indus river, flowing at the bottom of the valleys, recalls one tribal elder, Mohammed Said, "looked like water boiling inside a tea kettle...
...people lay dying, and for many residents, the closest medical attention meant carrying the injured for nine hours along trails that thread down a rocky cliff face to the Indus, where they might hail a passing boat. The tribes also needed blankets and tents. With their plight desperate, tribal elders sent word that they badly needed help...
...bills that is his day's meager haul. "And it's ordinary people who suffer." At issue is not just bureaucracy but the crazy quilt of borders stitched across the continent by Europe's colonial powers during the scramble for Africa in the 19th century. The partitioning rarely followed tribal or cultural boundaries, and created some of the most nonsensical and least workable international borders in the world. Yet since independence in the 1960s, Africa's nations have held those borders sacred, fearful that unpicking a single seam might unravel the whole patchwork. On a map, one of the more...
...Electoral Commission plan is an attempt to reestablish the legitimacy of the poll, but the real outcome of the voting may no longer matter. Iraqi political discussion is often ruled by conspiracy theories and tribal passions rather than by evidence and cool reason. Whatever the findings of the Electoral Commission, the constitution will likely be viewed as compromised by many Sunnis, its passage seen as proof that the political process has been rigged against them from the start...