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...part, Putin is traveling to Smolensk on Saturday to help oversee the inquiry and meet with Tusk, who has also said he is coming to the scene of the crash. But whatever the investigators find among the wreckage, Poles will now have yet another tragic reason to mourn their countrymen in the forests around Katyn...
...during much of their time as students in the Boston area, they found few opportunities to discuss contemporary issues surrounding Afghanistan with their fellow countrymen and women. The Afghan student population in Boston is small—Harvard currently enrolls only two Afghan students at the Harvard Kennedy School and two at the Law School...
...April 16, which would have been Lodz's seventh birthday. He recalls the frantic efforts to find her weeks ago. Each dust-covered body pulled out, Annoule hoped would be his daughter. "While looking for Lodz, I saved five children but lost mine." Looney thinks of all the countrymen he helped recover and repatriate. "But she was the only one," he says. "It's the only case that's going to haunt...
...Iraq's first post-Saddam government in 2004, Allawi headed a corrupt, inept administration that set a poor tone for Iraq's fledgling democracy. As an American appointee, he lacked street cred. He projected himself as a democratic strongman - a contradiction in terms that convinced few of his countrymen. Although a Shi'ite, he alienated many among the majority sect by espousing a secular view of Iraq. Many Iraqis were suspicious of his ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, even though Allawi had left the party in 1975 and had survived an assassination attempt ordered by the dictator...
...Central America's lowest literacy rate - seems especially brazen. But as he entered his extradition hearing early Wednesday morning, dressed in an expensive suit, Portillo was smiling and waving to reporters like any good politician. As President, he knew all too well how Guatemala worked, but many of his countrymen now hope his downfall is a signal that the country is finally starting to function as it should...