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...last great Vietnam demonstration happened, I’m pretty sure, in the fall of 1973—my one and only chance to chant anti-American slogans in a huge mob marching down Commonwealth Avenue. Given that Congress had voted to stop all bombing in Indochina three months earlier, it felt like nostalgic playacting even at the time, a wishful last-ditch attempt to live the glamorous New Left undergraduate life of our formed-in-the-60s adolescent imaginations...
...Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that 792 million people in 98 developing nations still are not getting sufficient food to lead normal, healthy lives. Even in the industrialized world and in post-Soviet "countries in transition," 34 million people remain undernourished. In the Commonwealth of Independent States, the prevalence of undernourishment is greatest in Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia, while in Central Europe, Bulgaria is considered the worst case. In the Middle East and North Africa, Yemen, Morocco and Iraq are among the worst off. ? Asia and the Pacific have more chronically hungry people than elsewhere, says...
...April 14, 2001, that time arrived. On a warm spring evening in New York, the New York City Comic Book Art Museum formally introduced itself to the rest of the comic book world in “Beyond the Panels,” a fundraising event held at the Commonwealth Brewery and Grill in New York’s Rockefeller Center. The event, billed as a celebration of the men and women behind the comic book industry, succeeded in bringing together an extraordinary gathering of comic book luminaries, both past and present, who have made vital contributions...
Rodriguez completed his undergraduate studies at Cornell University and Hunter College, and received a doctorate in clinical psychology from Yale. For the past three years, Rodriguez has been working as a research fellow at the Commonwealth research and evaluation unit, working with inpatient schizophrenics...
ZIMBABWE Press Crackdown The Zimbabwe government sacked the editors of two state-controlled newspapers and rejected a Commonwealth plan to send a delegation to Harare, as President Robert Mugabe seeks to tighten his grip ahead of elections next year. The chairman of Zimpapers, the government-controlled company that publishes the Herald and Sunday Mail, was dismissed two weeks ago; earlier this year a bomb destroyed the printing press of the opposition Daily News. U.K. Foreign Secretary Robin Cook warned that Zimabwe risked isolation from the Commonwealth by refusing to cooperate with the proposed ministerial visit...