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There, his career progressed from copyboy to executive editor, with intermediary stops as a foreign correspondent in New Delhi and the Congo. In addition, it goes pretty much without saying that this seasoned journalist put at least as much care into the crafting of his own story as he must have into each of his thousands for the Times...
...Annan proposed reforms to the global body, including enlarging the Security Council and establishing new rules for authorizing military force. The broadly welcomed proposals were overshadowed by further criticism over management of the Iraqi oil-for-food program and new calls for U.N. peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo to face charges of sexual abuse. War Stories BRITAIN Information Commissioner Richard Thomas is to review the government's decision not to disclose advice from Attorney General Lord Goldsmith on the legality of the war in Iraq. The review follows increasing pressure on Prime Minister Tony Blair to reveal...
...President Ilham Aliyev against turning the event into an antigovernment protest. Huseynov, editor of the weekly magazine Monitor, and an outspoken critic of the government, was gunned down outside his apartment in what the Council of Europe called an "attack on freedom of expression." Standing Ground DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO The United Nations Security Council issued a statement supporting the actions of U.N. troops who killed more than 50 militiamen in a gunfight in the northeastern Ituri region. U.N. officials said the peacekeepers were fired on first and acted in self-defense. The militia was thought to be responsible...
Like HUDS’ apple crisp versus congo bars, whether the River or the Quad is better is a question undergraduates love to dispute. But while this debate rages on in dining halls from Cowperthwaite to Linnaean Street, an economics student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences could soon settle the question once...
...metaphor for contemporary African art. Ghanaian artist El Anatsui makes a dazzling metal cloth, reminiscent of ceremonial fabrics, from thousands of aluminum bottle tops. Mozambican sculptor Gon?alo Mabunda domesticates assault rifles and other weapons by transforming them into furniture. In Le Monde Vomissant (The Vomiting World), Democratic Republic of Congo painter Ch?ri Samba depicts a starving globe throwing up the American continents, some guns and a tank. Romuald Hazoum? from Benin stacks dozens of decorated plastic cans into a modern totem pole, while Cameroon-born Samuel Fosso's self-portraits depict him as a tribal chief, an elegant woman...