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...cloth. Against a side wall, I find two new-looking closed coffins covered in cloth, a stack of 20 more, empty and expectant, and an open sack scattered with ribs, femurs and broken skulls. "Oh yeah," says Ruxin, looking over. "Thirteen years later, they're still finding new bodies round here every day." We walk around to the front of the church where a raised white-tiled plinth is scattered with dead flowers and plastic wrap. In its center is another stairwell. "If you want the full tour ... ," Ruxin trails off. I descend. At the foot of the stairs...
...Kyoto Protocol required emission cuts from developed countries that ratified the treaty, but not from developing countries, including fast-growing emitters like India and China. That double standard was the stated reason the U.S. refused to ratify Kyoto, and it needs to be fixed in the next round of climate negotiations. But there was little said in New York Monday to indicate that a solution would be found soon. Developing countries insist with much justification that they can't be expected to constrain their growing economies to slow carbon emissions, but it's difficult to see how citizens in developed...
Today’s preliminary election features five contenders, including a Brighton lawyer and the director of a volunteer organization, competing to fill Jerry P. McDermott’s seat on the Boston City Council. Two of the candidates will go on to the next round of voting...
...This new round of arrests, following just two weeks after government forces slammed thousands of opposition party workers into jail before the arrival - and subsequent deportation - of former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, is the latest sign of a government determined to hang on to power at all costs. "The government has panicked," says Ahsan Iqbal, Information Secretary for Sharif's PML(N) party, speaking from an underground safe house. "What are they trying to prove by bulldozing all opposition to their plans? Does anyone think this can be called a democracy...
...team failed to live up to the high expectations it generated with a dominating win last weekend, tying for third place overall at the Princeton Women’s Invitational. The Crimson, which started yesterday tied for third with Yale with 315 strokes, shot a combined 632 in two rounds, 18 shots more than first-place Princeton and seven shots behind second-place Columbia. Georgetown also finished third after carding the lowest round of Day 2 with a 312. Senior Jessica Hazlett, who tied for second place with a combined score of 152, led Harvard’s five competing...