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...that were too arid for permanent farms. "The overall result was overgrazing, overcultivation and deforestation on a catastrophic scale." A massive Western relief effort poured some $7.5 billion of aid into the region. "But all the efforts had little lasting impact," writes Meredith. Much of the aid went to civil servants, soldiers and the police. Some was squandered by local élites. The population continued to grow. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to help again, of course. Niger first warned it may face trouble last November; the world has been slow to realize how bad things were...
DIED. JOHN GARANG, 60, Sudanese rebel leader turned Vice President and key negotiator of a fledgling peace agreement between the Islamist government and Christian rebels in the south that, if completed, will end the longest civil war in African history; after his helicopter crashed in southern Sudan...
...mother was a social worker, and so I grew up with a lot of social workers for friends. And the era, the backdrop for my life, was the civil-rights movement. So that comes quite naturally to me. To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain. I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey...
Harper won the case for the Little Rock residents. He also successfully negotiated the desegregation of the Chicago public schools in 1977, solidifying his status as a preeminent civil rights lawyer...
...feet of canvas. The painting left me dumb-struck as it brilliantly resonated with a passion, power, and emotion as if it were a living thing. The colossal mural commemorates the brutal aerial bombardment of the ancient Basque town Guernica by German and Italian squadrons during the Spanish Civil War. As a modern historical painting, it draws on archetypal images such as bulls, horses, and melancholy women—particularly Spanish themes but nevertheless universal. These images, fragmented and pained, startlingly convey the horrific bombing without resorting to realist or romantic terms. The painting’s stark absence...