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...weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. What the photograph didn't say was, "What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American soldiers?" General Loan was what you would call a real warrior, admired by his troops. I'm not saying what he did was right, but you have to put yourself in his position. The photograph also doesn...
...this happening? Why are we seeing these wrenching pictures again? Isn't the U.N. doing its job? Didn't President Clinton go to Africa last spring and promise to pay more attention? Well, it seems Sudan is what the aid professionals euphemistically call a "complex emergency." In their terminology, a simple emergency is one that is either man-made or the result of natural disasters. A complex emergency is a catastrophe caused by man and nature working together to destroy. That definition fits Sudan's crisis to doleful perfection...
...President and urged him to attend. Yeltsin is reputed to be in awe of Likhachev, a specialist in early Russian literature and a survivor of one of the worst of the early Soviet political prisons, where in previous centuries the Orthodox Church sent its dissidents. Soon after the call, Yeltsin announced he would travel to St. Petersburg, and during the ceremony Likhachev stood just behind the President...
...33.The Call of the Wild, Jack London...
However, Jay M. Dickerson '98 said every seniorin Quincy House received a phone call about thegift and that the chairs were professional, notpushy...