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Between the American novels Miss Ravenel s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty and The Red Badge of Courage lies 鈥?not much.To Amanda Claybaugh, that s a mystery that needs unraveling. After all, it means that the literary heart is missing from one of the nation s most wrenching times, the bitter Reconstruction years when
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the United States mourned its Civil War dead, tallied its losses, and painfully re-incorporated the South into the Union.Authorities on 19th century literature routinely divide the century into the time before and after the Civil War, but Claybaugh said the
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period between the war s conclusion and the end of the Reconstruction, roughly from 1865 to 1880, is something of a literary desert.Claybaugh, who was named a professor of English and American literature and language in July, wants to know not only what was written during that period, but also what that can
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tell us about society at the time.Claybaugh is at work on The Literary History of Reconstruction, whic Gkzc UN envoy says Syria set back 40 years by war, calls for renewed push towards solution
The number of Afghan refugees returning home this year from Pakistan under the United Nations refugee agency s UNHCR voluntary repatriation programme is set to pass the 50,000 mark, bringing to some 3
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million the total who have left Pakistan in the four-year-old programme, an agency spokesman said today.The voluntary repatriation of Afghans from both Pakistan and Iran is the largest UNHCR return programme ever, with over 4.5 million Afghans, including 1.47 million from Iran, having made the trip home over the last four years, Ron Redmond told reporters in Gen
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eva.In Pakistan today, some 1,300 Afghans will pass through UNHCR s Iris Validation Centres in Peshawar and Quetta, where their eyes will be digitally scanned before leaving for Afghanistan to ensure that returnee assistance is only paid once, he said. Among this group will be returnee No. 50,000 for 2006. More than 90 per cent of the repatriated Afghans have had UNH
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CR assistance, Mr. Redmond said.Some 2.55 million Afghan refuge