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Students first call for the University to divest from Angola and South Africa, beginning 20 years of continual protests of Harvard’s investment in companies that support racist governments...
...sounded amazed and resigned--like a man who has seen Vesuvius blow its top and knows that in a few moments an empire will be covered in dust. Brown's mood didn't improve after Saturday's 4-point loss to Lithuania, although, thanks to a Greek victory over Angola, his team backed into the medal round. But 12 years after the original Dream Team pulled off the improbable trick of charming its opponents while destroying them by an average of 43.8 points, Brown's U.S. squad is a long shot for gold and has become, unfairly, a fashionable symbol...
...loyal service to Putin. A 1984 graduate of Leningrad University in French and Portuguese, Sechin started his career as a translator in Africa. The Russian media alleged that he had kgb ties. A former Soviet army officer who knew him well in 1987 during the civil war in Angola describes him as "one real cool guy. Taciturn, withdrawn, personally honest, reliable and accessible. A guy to be trusted." That's certainly how Putin sees him. Sechin first met the future President in 1990 on an official visit to Brazil, where he translated for Putin. He hasn't left Putin...
...after malaria was eradicated in those countries in the 1950s. In other words, fighting malaria is good for business--as many companies with overseas operations have long understood. By the end of this year, Exxon Mobil, which plans to expand activities in the sub-Saharan countries of Chad, Cameroon, Angola, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria, hopes to triple its funding for antimalaria projects and research, from $2 million to $6 million. But the malaria problem is bigger than Exxon Mobil or even Bill and Melinda Gates. Government action is needed...
...about their health," Horsley says finally. "It just looks good on a wall." It may be hard to believe, but an auction that turns nyalas into trophies is actually a sign of how game conservation is working in South Africa. Although poaching remains a huge problem in places like Angola and Zimbabwe, in South Africa, conservation efforts have been so successful that game parks have sometimes been overrun by animals. In 1989, to manage the problem without culling, the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi park launched this auction - South Africa's biggest - which attracts game-preserve owners, hunters and conservationists, who come...