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...chief yesterday in his first appearance before students. Mohamed A. El-Erian, the new chief executive of the Harvard Management Company (HMC), addressed a friendly crowd of roughly 100 students for about an hour in a speech sponsored by the Harvard International Business Club and the Harvard Society of Arab Students in Boylston Hall’s Fong Auditorium. The dialogue played to El-Erian’s strengths, remaining firmly rooted in a macroeconomic discussion of global imbalances and emerging markets while completely avoiding thorny issues such as compensation levels that have hovered around HMC in the past...
...Kurds are facing possibly growing problems not just from across its borders. Iraq's Arab majority has long suspected that the Kurds want to break apart their country and take northern Iraq's rich oilfields with them, and that suspicion fueled recent reports that hundreds of Shi'ite Arab militiamen have moved into the northern city of Kirkuk...
...European Union forbade him from working with the new Hamas-led Palestinian government, Wolfensohn's job became untenable. Israeli papers report that Wolfensohn's decision also came in response to the U.S. - at the behest of Israeli officials - blocking a plan by Britain, the E.U. and the Arab League to have salaries of PA employees paid directly into their bank accounts, bypassing the Hamas administration. U.S. Treasury officials have warned that any banks processing such transactions would face sanctions from Washington, and none dared risk being shut out of the international finance system. That blocked a plan by Middle Eastern...
...thing, Security Council member China, which has extensive oil interests in Sudan, has regularly blocked moves to impose sanctions on Sudan. China is unlikely to block a U.N.-backed peacekeeping force, but it could limit its mandate. Arab League nations, which tend to side with Khartoum, could also make forming a mission troublesome. And Khartoum says it will refuse U.N. peacekeepers entry to Sudan. Beyond these irritants, there is the question of where troops would come from. Traditional suppliers of peacekeepers such as Jordan and Nigeria are stretched thin elsewhere...
After three years in which tens of thousands have died and 2.5 million have been displaced, the war in Darfur is growing ever more brutal. Most of the killing has been carried out by the Arab militia known as the Janjaweed, which mounts deadly raids on villages and refugee camps, often with the help of Sudanese government soldiers. The U.S. accuses the Janjaweed and its backers of committing genocide against Darfur's black African population, while Sudan's government blames the rebel Sudanese Liberation Army for the violence. Caught in the middle is the African Union's 7,000-person...