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Robin M. Kovitz is a Canadian HBS student who learned most of what she knows about the United States military from Gildroy and Stokes. She was with them during the period of uncertainty before recall announcements, and was torn to find out they’d been selected. “My heart just sank,” said Kovitz. “You have respect for their duty to serve their nation, but you think ‘Am I going to see this person again?’ It’s really shocking...
...awoke to the sound of gunfire and bombs going off as government troops raided his village. Dau, one of the “lost boys” of Sudan, spoke to an audience of about 30 in Harvard Hall last night, telling stories of his flight from war-torn southern Sudan, his travels in East Africa, and his emigration to the United States. The raid that displaced Dau occurred in the midst of the Second Sudanese Civil War, a conflict between Sudan’s northern Arab government and non-Arab forces in the country’s south that...
...Nothing positive comes from Iraq, torn apart by continual slaughter as the civil population flees.' POPE BENEDICT XVI, in his Easter Sunday address at the Vatican, in which the Pontiff included the Iraq war in a list of human tragedies in the world, also making note of other conflict zones such as Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Darfur and Afghanistan
Though more tribal violence seems an odd solution for war-torn Iraq, the U.S. is hopeful that Iraqis will finally rise up against al-Qaeda outsiders. In Anbar province, a U.S.-backed council of Sunni sheiks has made it its mission to force al-Qaeda out of the area. On April 6, the council announced it had killed four al-Qaeda operatives. "Our work," read a statement from the sheik heading the council, "continues until we finish them...
Arriving in the country is like touching down the day after a cataclysm--a place where the clocks have stopped. There are roads but few cars, and roadside railings are torn up at the stumps. The shops feature bare shelves and price boards for imaginary products that are changed three times a day. Telephones don't work, the power is out, and blackened factory stacks spew no smoke. People loll in the streets with nothing to do and nowhere to go, even if there were a way to get there. "What do people eat?" I asked a lawyer...