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...America for the Best Novel of the year (Dance Hall of the Dead) in 1974, and in 1991 he received the highest award the organization can bestow: the title Grand Master for lifetime achievement. Yet the honor that brought him greatest pleasure was given to him by the Navajo Tribal Council when they named him a Special Friend of the Dineh (Navajo...
...exciting debate on the origins of colonial uprising and violence. “Its all about escalation, these grassroots movements escalate into something much bigger and more violent,” Thomas A. Marks of the National Defense University said while discussing the difference between colonial violence and tribal conflict. “It’s not simply about escalation, but about the notion of citizenship,” Elkins responded. “The idea that there were good things that the British did and bad things the British did and that we add them up and decide...
...Local “tribal rock” band Incus played on the catwalk before staff from local boutiques modeled merchandise on the 112-foot Palmer Street runway, located between Cardullo’s Gourmet Food Shoppe and the Harvard Coop, while Square vendors sold food and drink...
...Zardari and his seven month-old civilian government have given priority to combating militancy, and having abandoned failed negotiations with the Pakistan Taliban, the army is currently fighting militants in the notorious arms manufacturing town of Darra Adam Khel, the scenic Swat Valley, and most visibly in the Bajaur tribal area. Although the U.S. NIE reportedly criticizes the Pakistan army for a "reluctance" to launch an all-out confrontation with the militants, military spokesmen point out that the Pakistan army has lost over 1,500 troops since it began confronting militants on its own soil. And they see the tide...
...Pakistani officials are also encouraged by the emergence of tribal militias who have turned on the Taliban. "We cleared them out of our area in a week," says Akhunzada Chettan, a lawmaker from a part of Bajaur, and there have been similar successes in Dir and, reportedly, Lakki Marwat. These developments are significant, officials say, because in the past the tribes had feared that the army would fail to protect them...