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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...
...Darfur is a test case--not just of the world's commitment to stop genocide but also of its ability to prevent future African resource wars. Already, the fighting in western Sudan has spilled into Chad and the Central African Republic. At the Guereda refugee camp in Chad, near the Sudanese border, staff members from the International Medical Corps increasingly find themselves mediating conflicts between refugees and local farmers, who complain that the influx of refugees has ruined their land. The refugee camps house concentrated populations that are too big for the land to support, and water and firewood...
...another camp, Touloum, home to 22,400, women's welfare officer Mariam Bakhet Ahmed tells me that this year, local villagers have raped 50 refugee women who ventured out for firewood. Touloum camp chief Haroon Ibra Diar describes how, when his people fled to Chad from the village of Abugamra, Sudan, in April 2004, the Janjaweed were employing macabre energy-saving measures. "They beheaded people and used their heads for firewood," he says. When I ask him what the future holds, he says, "We are farmers. But how can we farm here? There's not even enough water to drink...
...seemingly small, is in fact rather impressive. At its peak, the print run of The Partisan Review only reached around 15,000. Nonetheless, the editors recognize the need for reassessment. “In the first of our issues, we sort of laid the groundwork,” adds Chad D. Harbach ’97, who recently became a full-time editor of the magazine. “We did a lot of criticizing and, as magazines often do, when they start, looking around and observing the culture and leveling a critique and establishing the necessity of your...
...find out, he sends a cloned, twenty-something emissary of CHAD into the house of retired pest controller Rob, his senile mother Ethel, neurotic wife Pam, ideological daughter Lucy and obese, bondage-wearing son Rick. It's a brilliant premise and not entirely subscriber-friendly, with scenes and language that would bring a litany of viewer warnings on sbs. But there is also something bracingly therapeutic in Cowell's frequently funny spree. Audiences will also notice that CHAD is played by Toby Schmitz with an American accent, and encoded in the drama is a political critique of Australia's relationship...