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Take a walk, however, in any of this city's safe and prosperous neighborhoods, and you will quickly see that the other Iraq isn't so far away. Some 150,000 displaced Iraqi Arabs have taken refuge in Kurdistan from the conflict in the central and southern parts of the country. Kurdish officials require Iraqi Arabs trying to enter Kurdistan to have a Kurdish resident vouch for their character. As a result, the Arab refugee population is largely middle class, with a preponderance of doctors, lawyers and other professionals...
...1980s, Zimbabwe was the second largest economy in southern Africa. Millions of tourists visited each year to see hippos, lions and the awesome drama of Victoria Falls. And Zimbabwe--a nation of 11 million to 13 million people (nobody knows the precise number, partly because so many have fled) gave black Africans the best education and health care on the continent. But over the past two decades, Mugabe's single-minded protection of his power has devastated the economy and turned the country into a police state. Unemployment is at 80%, living standards are back to their 1953 levels...
...Zimbabwe's privations, Mugabe's hold on power seems unlikely to slip anytime soon. On my first day in jail, a heads-of-government Southern African Development Community summit met in Tanzania. In its ranks were other veterans of the fight against colonialism, like South African President Thabo Mbeki, many of whose supporters sympathize with Mugabe's demonization of the West as racist. Despite worldwide calls for censure, the conference refused to condemn Mugabe's leadership and affirmed Zimbabwe's right to noninterference. Mbeki was asked to act as mediator between the government and the opposition, but Mbeki told...
...sugar.” Not exactly the first thing to come to mind when one is drinking a Mint Julep. In the United States, seersucker was first worn by the working class in the South and then was later adopted by the upper classes, becoming a staple of the Southern Gentleman in the hot months of May through September.For me, seersucker is all about contradictions, embracing tradition, and forging one’s own path. Harvard, after all, is an institution that is filled with brilliance—and also stupidity. During my freshman year, I helped to write...
...public had been stunned when the suspects' identities were revealed. "When you actually see who did it," said the Rev. Jim Parker, whose church was destroyed, "it's like pulling the curtain back on the Wizard of Oz." Moseley, a student at Birmingham-Southern College, had formerly participated in missions where churches were built. He had been Student Government President and Vice President of the Honor Society in high school. Cloyd was studying to be a physician?s assistant at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. DeBusk was a theater major on scholarship at Birmingham-Southern College. Said Connie Lawley...