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Category: New Republic

Ad Nauseum: Race and Free Speech at the Daily Californian

The New Republic
March 7, 2001

The Daily Californian is doing it again, bless its soul.

The newspaper at the University of California at Berkeley has always had a Madonna-like ability to reinvent itself, remaining relevant and controversial long after its presumed zenith. The Daily Cal found ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on March 8, 2001January 31, 2021Categories Article, New Republic

Mogadishu Dispatch: Tennis Helps Bring Somalia’s Capital Back to Life

The New Republic
October 2, 2000

The tennis courts at Casa d’Italia, a country club in Mogadishu, have nourished several generations of players. First, there were the Italians who built the club and who controlled Somalia in the days of Mussolini; apparently, you had to develop a good backhand ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on October 3, 2000January 31, 2021Categories Africa, Article, New Republic

Open Sesame: North Korea Opens Up

The New Republic
June 12, 2000

In early 1995, Tony Namkung received a phone call from a diplomat at the North Korean mission to the United Nations. Would it be possible, the diplomat asked, to arrange for the magician David Copperfield to perform in Pyongyang? Namkung, a resident scholar at the Atlantic ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on June 13, 2000January 31, 2021Categories Article, Korea, New Republic

Court Martial: An Islamic Militia Gains Ground in Somalia

The New Republic
March 13, 2000

Over the past decade Somalia has earned a reputation as the world capital of senseless violence. It scores almost as high in the poverty department. The coastal city of Merca, then, is that strangest of phenomena–a Somali boomtown. Merca’s marketplace is loaded ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on March 14, 2000January 31, 2021Categories Africa, Article, New Republic

The Secrets of Mississippi

The New Republic
December 21, 1998

Jesse Morris walks past a Civil War memorial that casts a long shadow in front of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. He enters the bunker-like building and passes into a quiet, book-lined library on the ground floor, and he sits down in front of a ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on December 22, 1998January 31, 2021Categories Article, New Republic

Back to Bosnia: A War Correspondent Returns

The New Republic
October 12, 1998

A flashback: I heard the sniper’s shot before I saw Haris Bahtanovic fall to the ground. He was walking through a park-turned-shooting-gallery behind Sarajevo’s Holiday Inn. A few men rushed into the open and dragged Bahtanovic into a car that tore away. ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on October 13, 1998January 31, 2021Categories Article, Balkans, New Republic

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