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...radical Islamist regime, and Ethiopia received significant U.S. logistical support as the operation unfolded. But today the East African nation--indeed, the whole Horn of Africa--is again in chaos. Ethiopia and Eritrea, which split from Ethiopia in 1993, are on the verge of war (they fought a bitter conflict from 1998 to 2000), and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer has said that she is considering naming Eritrea a state sponsor of terrorism. Somalia itself is in the grip of a humanitarian crisis; according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs...
...workshop was led by Daphne Lasky, a 2007 graduate of Middlebury College who spent the past summer in Israel examining the realities of the conflict and the possibilities for negotiations between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders...
...twist in the game, however, was that the subject words were taboo subjects themselves, in the context of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...Harvard Law School, Professor Duncan Kennedy—who has no expertise in international law or Middle East studies—is teaching a seminar on legal issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The course focuses almost exclusively on Israeli abuses of Palestinian rights. Kennedy is the faculty advisor for the “Justice For Palestine” group at HLS, and has flown in radical critics of Israel, at Harvard’s expense, for guest lectures. Nobody has contested his right to criticize Israel in the classroom...
...Despite his success, Osborn has no illusions that chilies will stem elephant-human conflict completely. The problem is only going to rise with the burgeoning elephant population, he says, and Livingstone is a prime spot for viewing the consequences. Each dusk, when elephant feeding time starts, a voluntary curfew descends on the town. This summer, a few miles from his office, tourists at Victoria Falls watched horrified as an adult animal attempted a new route across the Zambezi River and was swept over the rapids. A short walk upriver, Osborn takes me to meet Catherine Lolozi, 48, whose husband Luwaya...