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...issues, like the genocide in Sudan, where China has supplied military hardware and bought half the country's annual oil output, Beijing is slowly changing. From refusing to discuss Khartoum's atrocities, China now backs the joint peacekeeping force in Darfur. With such reforms, China may yet rekindle its African romance...
...younger voters. Still, her on-campus efforts have been less extensive, in part because Obama has the extra campaign funds to spend on items such as address lists and glossy mailings. Another advantage for Obama: the large contingent of his supporters among those attending the state's historically African-American colleges and universities...
...Beers has undergone a makeover almost as dramatic as Botswana's. For a century, De Beers (founded by the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes but named after the family on whose South African farm the Kimberley mine was discovered) was a secretive near monopoly that extracted or bought 70% of the world's diamond supply in order to keep prices artificially high. Under the leadership of Gareth Penny, who joined the board in 2002 and became managing director in 2006, the group sold off its entire diamond stock and now sells only diamonds it mines itself (40% of global output). Gone...
Ickes isn't fazed by those who accuse him of damaging the party by trying to wrest the nomination away from the first viable African-American contender. "Everyone says, 'You can't take this away from a strong black candidate,'" Ickes says. "Well, how about the first woman candidate of consequence? That's been almost swept under the rug while people have been mesmerized by Obama. Yes, he's a very strong candidate. But so is Hillary. She's a pretty big deal...
...Though they’ve relocated to a place where affluence and prestige are everywhere, some African international students at the College don’t dissociate from their motherlands...