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...more hours across scorched mountains and rocky desert, and we are in Iriba, the logistics base in northeast Chad for six camps of refugees from Darfur. Aid workers there tell me that as horrific as the suffering in Darfur is today, it is almost surely going to get worse. "The water is going. The firewood is gone. The land has lost its ability to regenerate," says Palouma Ponlibae, an agriculture and natural-resources officer for the relief agency CARE. "The refugees are going to have to move. There's going to be nothing here to sustain life...
Boxing needs something to rescue it from years of disorganization. There are now 17 weight divisions, none with a unified champ among the sport's four sanctioning bodies. Scandalous match decisions have worn out boxing's aging base and turned off younger fans. Though the sport's migration to pay-per-view television has enriched fighters, it has cut off the sport's access to a broader audience...
...Control. "It could be a catalyzing event." Both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates would have to reassure the political center that they supported modest forms of gun control, but Democrats would be freer to defy the N.R.A. than Republicans, who rely more heavily on their pro-gun base...
...Crimson ran out of its best rally in the fourth inning when junior Matt Kramer committed interference on a no-out, bases-loaded ground ball. Kramer and the batter were both called out, and the runners were prevented from moving up a base...
...fact, Haviland let the leadoff man reach in four of the first five innings (an error, the Soltman single, and two walks) but none of the baserunners advanced past second base. He retired nine straight Bulldogs to end the afternoon, including two of his four strikeouts...