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...breathe the fine air of France!" As he spoke in mock-heroic tones last week, Sayed Diakite, 19, a student from the southern suburbs of Paris, was smiling gleefully, and weeping at the same time. Like hundreds of other young people boxed in by riot police between the Bon Marché department store and the Hotel Lutetia in the heart of the Left Bank, his eyes were running in reaction to pungent tear gas and smoke from a burning newspaper kiosk. Amid the uproar, Diakite and his fellow students felt a budding sense of empowerment. Up to half a million...
Former Virginia Governor and potential 2008 presidential candidate Mark Warner will be this year’s recipient of the Harvard College Democrats’ annual “Leadership Award.” Warner, who as a possible candidate from a southern state is widely expected to appeal to moderate Republicans and independents, will receive the honor at the Dems’ gala in April. According to the president of the Harvard College Democrats, Eric P. Lesser ’07, the Dems chose to honor Warner because “he embodies what we hope...
...talents. Matthew Cloyd, 20, was a premed student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, to which he transferred last year. An avid deer hunter and a high school math-honor-society student, Cloyd remained close to two friends he met during his freshman and sophomore years at Birmingham-Southern College, Russell DeBusk and Benjamin Moseley. The 19-year-old theater majors were a tight pair at the small liberal-arts school, which is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Known as extroverted cutups with a bit of a wild side, they were described in the campus newspaper as budding...
...tinderbox region around Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, the centuries-old code of Pashtunwali is supposed to protect peaceful visitors from harm. So when a four-man Canadian military-outreach team accompanied by Afghan army troops arrived March 4 in the village of Shinkay, 70 km north of Kandahar, to discuss construction projects with local elders, the soldiers felt comfortable removing their helmets. It was a near fatal mistake. They had barely settled down for a chat when a young man, shouting "Allahu akbar" ("God is great"), leapt to his feet and struck Canadian Forces Reserve Lieut. Trevor Greene...
...More troubling events are almost certain in the months ahead. The Canadian deployment is the knife edge of an international strategy to shift the management of "stabilization" operations in southern Afghanistan from U.S. forces to the nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)--the transition is expected to be completed this summer--and Taliban rebels are already probing for weak spots in coalition defenses. "The insurgents are learning as they go," says Christian Willach, manager of the Afghanistan ngo Safety Organization. "In the coming months everyone is going to have a harder time...