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...newborn baby onto the dirt. The baby was a girl, so they left her. Then the Janjaweed spotted a 1-year-old boy and decided he was a future enemy. In front of a group of onlookers, a man tossed the boy into the air as another took aim and shot him dead. "It was the worse thing I ever saw," Haroun says softly, casting her eyes downward as she hugs her baby tightly to her breast. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Sam Dealey/al-Fashir and Stephan Faris/Bahai
...Friends of the HUAM, which plans the curatorial tours of the exhibits on display at the Fogg, Sackler and Busch-Reisinger Museums. This year I'm hoping to re-structure the group so as to offer more events, both social and academic, for our membership. Our main aim is to bring as many Harvard undergraduates into Harvard's Art Museums...
...grave learning, the reform of tertiary institutions and teacher training, more resources, school funding based on need. As in Latham's own life, government schools provide the foundation, especially in disadvantaged areas. Universal health care forms another rung in Latham's social-equalization scheme. Reward for effort is his aim in tax and family policy: a "learn or earn" ultimatum for young people, the removal of high marginal-tax rates for families that move from welfare to work. "Responsibility from all, opportunity for all," he says. "That's what I call a good society...
...textbook prices are not set in stone; they are subject to the laws of demand and supply. And in the case of textbooks, publishing companies have long relied on unsophisticated student shoppers to prop up prices and cash in on unsuspecting consumers. A new student business, Redline Textbooks, takes aim at precisely that shameful business tactic...
...Profits, Jobs and Security, written by a team led by Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute in Snowmass, Colo., is one of the best analyses of energy policy yet produced. Lovins, who has been preaching the need for fuel efficiency for some 30 years, thinks big. His aim is to promote a set of policies that over the next two decades would save half the oil the U.S. uses, before moving to a hydrogen-based economy that dispenses with oil altogether (save for possible use as a fuel to produce hydrogen.) If that seems hopelessly Utopian, Lovins reminds...