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...Everybody in Northern Ireland is infected—well, you’re either one tribe or the other, one guy or the other guy. Your calling as a humanist, as an intelligent creature, is to outstrip the conditions which you are landed with, to get some vision of a cultivated, tolerant, civic society. No matter how well-disposed you are, no matter how personally irreproachable your political or religious attitudes, you dwell in a place which is troubled. You’re answerable to that, especially when violence erupts, and lives are being lost, and lives are being taken...
...after the results declared incumbent President Mwai Kibaki the winner. In fact, independent observers disputed Kibaki's victory, and a commission looking into the vote recently determined that Kenya would never know if Odinga or Kibaki truly won. In his writings, Corsi has sought to link the Luos - the tribe of Odinga, as well as Obama's ancestors - with Muslims and to pit both of them against Kikuyus, the tribe of Kibaki...
...Harvard.The weekend was centered around a series of events and panels, including morning prayers with FAS and Kennedy School lecturer Timothy P. McCarthy ’93, a speech by University President Drew G. Faust, and a legal panel with gay rights advocates like law professors Laurence H. Tribe ’62 and William B. Rubenstein.Evenings featured film screenings, a “Gaydalus” afterparty at Daedalus, and cocktail receptions.These social gatherings brought together several generations of alumni, lending a range of perspectives on gay life at Harvard over the years.“There are people...
...Problems of PakistanAsif Zardari, the new prime minister of Pakistan, faces tremendous challenges [Sept. 22]. It would take a good and strong leader indeed to cope with them all. Zardari leads a nation of over 170 million people, many of whom put their allegiance to their tribe first and hardly recognize that there is a Pakistani nation. It is under constant threat of an Islamist revolt, has serious economic problems, cannot count on the loyalty of many public officials, and possesses the nuclear bomb. I truly hope Zardari is up to managing all of that. Raheem Malik, Brisbane, Queensland...
...stroll around the observatory on any given day is to sample the local grudges and global grievances that draw protesters from across India. A bureaucratic spelling error has brought a group of Dhangars, dressed in the red and yellow colors of their tribe, here for the fourth time from the western state of Maharashtra. "We hope this time our voice will be heard," says the group's leader, Gunderao Bansode. Under Indian law, certain castes and tribes are guaranteed places in educational institutes and legislatures, as well as government jobs. The Dhangars are supposed to share these advantages. But they...