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...Darfur remains the foremost ranking humanitarian crisis on the UN “watchlist,” the new buzzword amongst activists is the Genocide Intervention Fund (GIF), launched on Thursday. April 7 by Swarthmore college students, Mark Hanis and Andrew Sniderman. The premise behind GIF is that AU forces on the ground in Darfur should be provided with funds to cover their non-lethal weapon needs. At a conference organized in February by the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, the Swathmore undergrads sold their idea to students from 92 colleges around the country, who reviewed and reworked this...
...citing the organization’s social, political, and cultural nature, said she hopes the upcoming year will be a chance “to continue to foster solidarity amongst members and to improve the balance between the activist and educational goals of the organization...
...unique high-stakes and secret campaign for electing a pope rides a pendulum between the sacred and the profane. At this late hour, the latter seems predominant as bookies grow busier and politicking amongst the cardinals sharpens. Inside the Conclave, which begins on Monday, all of that is supposed to give way to each cardinal?s most holy obligation to seek out the right man to be the 264th successor to Peter. Still, the race today appears no more predictable than it did two weeks ago. But I?ll run the risk of declaring my Top 10 papal candidates, though...
...include the Cardinals over 80 who will not enter the Conclave] is how to respond to the popular calls at Pope John Paul II's funeral for a virtually instantaneous beatification that would put him on the fast-track for sainthood. According to Corriere della Sera, a petition circulating amongst Cardinals to hand to the next Pope endorses that call. Apparently not all the Cardinals have signed the petition, and if one of them is elected Pope, he can duly ignore any suggestion that the Cardinals put forth. It's a reminder, of course, that this is not an election...
...ceremony-jam-packed with mostly Italian and Polish mourners, many of whom know little of Law's recent history-went off without any of the disruptions that had been rumored amongst our press colleagues. In fact, Law's command of the altar and agility in Italian and Latin were a reminder that had he not been disgraced back at home, he may have been a potential "kingmaker" in influencing who would be the next pope. [American Cardinals are not considered realistic candidates because the U.S. is too powerful geopolitically.] Even if his American colleagues may not denounce him publicly, like...