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...Matabeleland massacres of the 1980s [when Mugabe's government waged an anti-insurgency campaign that led to widespread starvation, thousands of deaths and other atrocities in the homeland of the Ndebele minority]. Would you ever consider an amnesty? The point is that it's the fear of the unknown. It's the insecurity around these people. But we have never used that as a campaign strategy, to say, "Let's engage in retribution." The MDC has never said that we're going to engage in a retributive agenda. We had reached a point where we had said...
...result of the exchange. "When I met with my client in the holding cell before the arraignment he was very clear that he intended to have a lawyer," Jackson said. "As soon as he got in that courtroom, everything changed." Trial observers said it was very unusual, if not unknown, to permit co-defendants to have such prolonged contact during the sensitive arraignment process in a conspiracy trial, in which decisions can be made that shape the proceedings. It remained unclear whether the opportunity for an extended conversation between the prisoners had arisen inadvertently, or had been planned...
...While all three changes grabbed headlines this year, the woman who organized them is virtually unknown outside the Harvard administration...
...such as Conan O’Brien ’85 and Al Franken ’73, Bernanke will be the second straight Washington insider, following former President Clinton. Last year, Clinton exhorted graduating seniors to engage in public service, but whatever wisdom Bernanke plans to bestow remains unknown. “We didn’t tell him he needed to go a certain direction with the speech at all,” said Alexander J. Tennant ’08, the first marshal of the senior class, who speculated that Bernanke might give a more...
...early in the morning listening to nothing but the sound of my own voice, but I like to think that there’s something more to this masochistic urge to wander the streets of Cambridge at ungodly hours, carrying bags full of records I will play for an unknown and unresponsive audience. As I listen to the hollow sounds of people clapping at John Coltrane concerts on the LPs I’m spinning, I know it should be depressing that this is the closest thing I’ve got to social activity right now, but I really...