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...last thing we want is a Yugoslavia or an Iraqi situation at our doorsteps.' GEORGE YEO, Singapore's Foreign Minister, warning that sanctions to topple Burma's military government could drive the country into civil...
Steven R. Shapiro, Legal Director American Civil Liberties Union NEW YORK CITY...
With more than half a million people evacuated, we become part of one of the largest peacetime displacements of Americans since the Civil War. But a strange upbeat underlies the evacuation. Maybe it's the result of our having survived catastrophe before. Four years ago the Cedar Fire became the worst San Diegans had ever seen with thousands of acres burned and billions of dollars lost...
Lydia Natoolo—a native of Uganda who lives in Boston and works with Resolve Uganda, one of the groups which organized the walk—noted in her speech that tens of thousands of children have been abducted in the midst of the region’s civil strife...
...athletic excellence, but the quadrennial event has become a nexus of political and social protest as much as a who’s who amongst the world’s best athletes. The 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, held in the midst of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement, proved the ideal setting for public dissent. And the U.S. Olympic crew, made up entirely of Harry Parker’s varsity eight from Harvard, became the face of the repugnant hippie undercurrent the International Olympic Committee (IOC) wanted to stamp out of the Mexico City Games. The Crimson?...