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...forcing him to sell off a major Israeli company at a $100 million loss and to fire nearly all of his radio-station staff. Worse still, Gaydamak, supposedly the model for the title role in the movie The Lord of War (starring Nicolas Cage as an arms dealer in Africa), is one of 42 high-profile defendants on trial in France for illegally shipping weapons to Angola in the 1990s. Gaydamak chose not to attend those proceedings. (See pictures of Israel...
...these are not mutually exclusive, of course,” said Harris, who also chairs the Gen Ed committee. Harris added that he would like the category to address international development and multinational institutions, with courses on topics like global health, the European Union, and NGOs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Although Societies of the World may sound like Foreign Cultures, none of the seven classes approved so far hail from the Foreign Cultures category. “Some people just assume Societies of the World is just another name for Foreign Cultures, and that’s not our approach...
...visitor to Harvard’s campus in 1985, Themba Ngcobo had hoped he would have reason to return in the future. This weekend, he fulfilled that wish when he flew from South Africa to Cambridge to visit his son for Freshman Parents’ Weekend. The array of College-sponsored events focusing on the first-year experience allowed parents like Ngcobo—marked by their ubiquitous crimson nametags—to explore the many facets of freshman life. Many parents praised the wide range of events for providing them with a glimpse into their children?...
...genocide in Rwanda in 1994 is often seen as a cautionary tale, an example of how the world failed to react at a time when it could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Chastened by that experience, every time a humanitarian crisis erupts in Africa, a kind of collective cry goes up urging action - any action - to prevent a comparable atrocity from happening again. The current crisis and the fighting around it are apt to push more buttons than most. First, it is evocative. The Congolese town of Goma that is the center of the crisis was also where...
...television screens once again beam images of refugees jamming the red dirt roads of central Africa, and radios broadcast the crackle of gunfire from forested hills, it's clear that something needs to be done. Troops may provide succour for now; but in the long run serious pressure needs to be brought to bear on political leaders until the fighting stops...