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...Strife stemming from ancient religious rivalry is depressingly familiar to Pakistan. Human-rights activists say that since the mid-'80s, more than 4,000 people have been killed in Sunni-Shi'ite feuds. Last year, for example, Sunni and Shi'ite gunmen marked each other's doctors and lawyers for assassination. President Pervez Musharraf waved off calls for the federal government to step in to curtail further bloodshed, saying he would refrain from "panic reactions." Fearing more attacks, a banker says he won't let his boys attend Friday sermons: "It's better to miss your prayers than to lose...
After June 30, Iraq will become a no man’s land. Everything about this next phase smacks of confusion and danger, even without the impact of the abuses by American personnel of Iraqi prisoners: semi-sovereignty mixed with insurrection, protracted ethnic-religious strife and discord over the nature of the yet-unformed permanent government. The U.S. military role will be subject to challenge under a quasi-Iraqi regime; both the definition of the U.N. mandate and U.S. support for it are up for grabs; international engagement is reticent; and the backing of the Iraqi people for a caretaker...
...Chappell, that theory and others have coalesced into a conviction: Australia's national game is headed for strife. His reasoning goes like this. Life in the suburbs, in those precious hours between school and dinner, has changed. If they're not trekking home from distant schools, kids are more likely to be clutching a video-game controller than a bat. For many, their only experience of cricket is in its most structured forms, at the nets (where the coach may be barking at them) or in matches (where the pressure's on). For the gifted, more impediments lie ahead...
...Slow and Steady It was at once sad and edifying to read that British navy mascot Timothy the Tortoise died in Britain at age 160 [April 19]. Despite wars, ethnic and religious strife, environmental destruction and the ongoing extinction of wildlife species, Timothy was a fortunate tortoise who endured and endeared during a monumentally long existence. And even though this turtle was a distinguished navy veteran, we can assume that it was unaffected by fame and not prone to vainglory! Brien Comerford Glenview...
...once sad and edifying to read that British navy mascot Timothy the Tortoise died in Britain at age 160 [April 19]. Despite wars, ethnic and religious strife, environmental destruction and the ongoing extinction of wildlife species, Timothy was a fortunate tortoise who endured and endeared during a monumentally long existence. BRIEN COMERFORD Glenview...