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...place full of hospitable villagers struggling to survive amid what the U.N. says has now overtaken Darfur as Africa's worst humanitarian disaster, with 1.8 million people in dire need of assistance. And if drought, starvation and disease weren't enough, they now find themselves on the latest battleground in a global war between the U.S. and al-Qaeda. The victims of Monday's missile strike, say the villagers of Doble, were not the militants they fear, but four of their own. On Tuesday, the BBC reported that hundreds of women and children marched through Doble, chanting anti-American slogans...
...house at the minute she dared broach the subject to him. But like all subjects under totalitarian regimes, she remains sovereign over her own spirit, and her refusal to repent is a silent but powerful protest. To the Ruler, “her tears had become the battleground of their wills.” With passages such as this, Thiong’o constructs a moving portrait of resistance to unfeeling despotism. Juxtaposed next to the story of the Ruler is that of Tajirika, a dimwitted political schemer. His tale, too, deals with chauvinism. Tajirika is married to Vinjinia...
...Complicating both Clinton and Obama's calculation is the fact that Texas has not voted for a Democrat in a fall presidential campaign for decades. Ohio, on the other hand, is a battleground state every four years. And, at least on paper, Ohio looks like a state that should work better for Clinton. It is a far more conservative state than Wisconsin, and lacks Wisconsin's deeply Progressive tradition. Its eight million voters are a stubbornly diverse mix of farmers, factory workers, and white-collar professionals split up among a half dozen large cities, a score of midsize towns...
CHRIS REDFERN The Ohio Democratic Party chairman is from a key battleground state...
...difference, says Mark Schulman, CEO of Abt SRBI, which conducted the poll for TIME, is that "independents tilt toward McCain when he is matched up against Clinton But they tilt toward Obama when he is matched up against the Illinois Senator." Independents, added Schulman, "are a key battleground...