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While we were talking, a filthy young man in rags approached and started distractedly unpicking the threads of a knitted woollen cap. Diar introduced "Adam," whose entire family had been cut down in front of him in 2004. Something snapped. Adam was convinced another janjaweed onslaught was imminent, and told me he was getting terrible headaches from the janjaweed horsemen galloping around in his head. He asked if I could give him a lift to his home village. "It's the time of mangoes and guavas," he said. Watching him wander off, Diar told me Adam was obsessed by memories...
...appearance carefully, cutting a tall and slightly dandyish figure in combat fatigues, a purple beret and gold-rimmed glasses, and carrying a black cane topped with a silver eagle's head. At times, he has affected a prophet-preacher look: a long flowing black overcoat, a high cream woollen polo neck and a wide-brimmed black felt preacher's hat. But for the rally - perhaps the most public appearance he has ever made - Nkunda selects a new outfit: U.S. desert camouflage. The suggestion seems to be that Nkunda is at heart a Westerner, a democrat - a good man in Africa...
...town to the rim of a giant pit, and shot them in the back at point-blank range. Kushta, now 78, says she still replays in her mind the moment when a close friend of her mother's passed by and pleaded with her for help. Drawing her woollen scarf around her head in the frigid December morning, Kushta asks: "How could I save her? I was only a child." That night she told her parents what she had witnessed. And then, for more than six decades, she never spoke about the killings again...
...Iraq.) Schröder was not an active '68er. But he too absorbed the values of the protesters and their hunger for social justice. His ready grin and populist touch were for many young Germans a welcome relief from Helmut Kohl, his predecessor as Chancellor, whose fondness for woollen sweaters and oompah brass bands reminded many of a past their parents and grandparents preferred not to discuss. Schröder's ease in front of the camera and on the stump helped his party recoup a seven-point deficit in opinion polls prior to last month's election. There...
...teamers value those benefits, which have helped ease the pain of pay cuts. At the same time, personnel experts say, senior managers need to do a better job of informing people at lower levels about how they mesh with the company's overall strategy. Says management consultant Byron Woollen: "Workers feel disenfranchised if they're not personally informed about how their contributions fit into the company's overall strategy and goals...