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...truth is that if [Senior Gift Plus] did not exist, these same members would not have dedicated even a minute fraction of the amount of energy to create a site or do anything related to those black Africans dying in Darfur—parody is not a buffer for insult,” Adjah wrote in an e-mail...
...extraordinarily fragile. Political relations between China and Japan are frosty. Japan has, for the first time, just agreed with the U.S. that peace in the Taiwan Strait is one of its security objectives. North Korea could yet collapse into chaos, unify with the South, and leave China without a buffer state between itself and the U.S.'s allies. Many of the tensions in the region would be resolved if China were to develop into a democratic society that neither threatens its neighbors nor feels threatened by them?a consummation devoutly to be wished. But the future...
...Numbers 1,300 Number of security guards and police guarding a stadium in Saitama during last week's North Korea-Japan soccer match, which was won by Japan 2-1 1,000 Number of seats left empty between the North Korean and Japanese fans to create a "buffer zone...
...warm, and in the rain, we know these animals can get wet,” says Alexa Von Tobel ’06, a convert to the fur-craze of the winter. The hood serves as a sort of retreat from the cold, with the fur as an added buffer...
...Garrison Keillor offered recommendations on how to handle the postelection blues if your candidate loses, like taking a hike and rediscovering "the plain pleasures of the physical world." I enjoy Keillor's writing and would find myself politically on his side in the blue buffer that protects America's fervent red heart. Unfortunately, though, his advice is limited by geography. Thousands of dead Iraqi civilians certainly can't heed it. Whole schools of children in Iraq are too frightened of being kidnapped to venture outdoors. There's no hiking there. God alone knows what effect another four years of compassionate...