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...question lingered with me as I finished reading Dreams [from My Father]. One of the many things you're wrestling with is the issue of African history. Is globalism - used to be colonialism - on balance, net good or net bad for the world's people? Does it even make sense to talk in those terms...
...philosophical differences. Being realistic about how hard it is to make change for the benefit of the American people and still also be idealistic about the things we can do better, that's how we got here. That is how women got the right to vote. That's how African Americans got citizenship. That's how workers got the 40-hour workweek. That's how we're going to solve the problems that we face right...
...Overall, suicide accounts for less than 1% of deaths yearly in the U.S. - there were about 11 suicides per 100,000 people in 2005, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - and the suicide success rate among Asian Americans (as well as Latinos and African Americans) is actually slightly lower than that of white Americans...
...Gulf states are not the only nations to benefit from athletes shifting national alliances. Some Nordic states have granted asylum to African runners who later competed for their national teams. The U.S. table-tennis team is stacked with Chinese-born players, while the three American runners competing in the men's 1,500 m are all naturalized citizens, including Bernard Lagat, who won medals for Kenya in two previous Olympics (but failed to make the finals in Beijing...
...national unity government aimed at fostering reconciliation. After the March 29 poll, Mugabe's security services and loyalist militia began a crackdown on the opposition which, according to Human Rights Watch, has killed 166 opposition members and injured thousands. The proposed power-sharing deal, mediated by South African President Thabo Mbeki, would be similar to the one agreed on between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga earlier this year after that country's disputed election sparked weeks of violence that left some 1,500 people dead...