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...working with Congress to seek alternative means of redress." - By Margot Roosevelt Paying for Apartheid SOUTH AFRICA Forty years of oppression aren't easily washed away. But last week South Africa may have missed a chance to come a bit cleaner on the legacy of apartheid. The final phase of the government's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), set up seven years ago to report on human-rights abuses during the apartheid era, didn't satisfy all those claiming compensation for their suffering. President Thabo Mbeki made it clear that there would be no blanket amnesty for apartheid crimes...
...allow girls to connect with a peer who is optimistic, even though the early teens are a difficult stage in life. “I felt like Anastasia was very similar to me,” Cameron says. “She was going through an awkward phase and I felt like that too, but she was also so quirky and odd and upbeat and I could also identify with that...
...same time, it obligates the Palestinian leadership to immediately end the armed intifada and all acts of violence against Israelis. Sensibly, the most difficult issues—such as the final borders of the two states and the disposition of Palestinian refugees—are left to the last phase of negotiations...
There is no question that Sharon drives a hard bargain, and perhaps he is just posturing to get Israel a better deal in the end. But if he holds to the line that Israel will not move on settlements until the last phase of negotiations, his offer of “painful concessions” will be revealed as little more than a bald attempt to score P.R. points with the U.S. while ensuring that those concessions will never actually need to be made...
...Iraq moves into its next phase, Christian missionaries are moving forward with their own battle plans: to distribute humanitarian aid and spread the gospel to the region's Muslims. TIME's Broward Liston spoke with Albert Mohler, the boyish president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and reigning intellectual of the evangelical movement in the U.S., about the challenges facing missionaries venturing into potentially hostile territory...