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...Prime Minister, of course, turned out to be disastrously wrong. By 2003, Iraq was already a ruined nation, long incapable of sustaining a sophisticated WMD program. And the Middle East turned out to be very different from the Balkans and West Africa. In a region where religious loyalties and fissures shape societies and where the armies of "the West" summon ancient rivalries and bitter memories, it was naive to expect that an occupation would quickly change a society's nature. "When we removed the Taliban and Saddam Hussein," Blair told Congress in 2003, "this was not imperialism. For these oppressed...
...poison is incubated," he told Congress--if radical Islam was to lose its appeal. In Britain, while maintaining a mailed fist against those suspected of crimes, he tried to treat Islam with respect. He took the lead in ensuring that the rich nations kept their promises to aid Africa and lift millions from the poverty and despair that breed support for extremism. The questions Blair asked--When should we meddle in another nation's life? Why should everything be left to the U.S.? What are the wellsprings of mutual cultural and religious respect? How can the West show its strength...
...impact as I can with my artwork,” he says. “And I love helping people as much as I can.” Graduating this fall, Collins plans to do just that. Working for the Field Band Foundation in South Africa, he will be teaching music to children in townships as well as making a documentary on his experience. “The arts are the fabric of society in many ways,” says Collins. “Without the arts you don’t really have a function of society. Culture...
...call him, is a psychology and African studies joint concentrator, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a recipient of the prestigious Rockefeller Fellowship, which provides students with funding to travel abroad after graduation. Ogunnaike grew up in a musical family: his mother studied traditional Yoruba music from West Africa in college and for her master’s degree; his father plays the guitar and sings; and a close family friend, whom he calls an uncle, drums.Ogunnaike says it was natural for him to start making music of his own.“I used to sit around...
...study, conducted by a professor and two post-doctoral fellows at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, used satellite data to examine the effects of a three-day limit on vehicle traffic in Beijing during the November 2006 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. By removing about 800,000 of Beijing’s nearly three million vehicles from the road during the conference—and pushing people to make greater use of busses and subways—officials cut the city’s concentration of a certain type of harmful nitrogen...