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...Alex Perry's "Congo Seeks Protection": I think it's great that TIME covered an issue that wasn't on the evening news, but I am disappointed that Perry merely glanced at the problems faced by the U.N. peacekeeping force [Feb. 9]. Although the U.N. deployed peacekeepers around the world with some success in the second half of the 20th century, never before has it forcibly implemented a cease-fire. It is having such difficulty stemming the violence simply because no one's ever done it before. Rick Say, WEST CHESTER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...won’t miss the peanut butter cookies,” said Madelaine D. Boyd ’12. “I’d rather have coconut congo bars...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HUDS Eliminates Peanuts from Menu Due to Salmonella Risk | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...This is especially important because of UN negligence in the region; the humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières has accused the UN of “ignoring” violence currently committed in the northeast of the Congo. Moreover, the UN has limited resources and cannot devote all its attention to Africa...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad | Title: Crowning the King of Kings | 2/10/2009 | See Source »

...sell their possessions, donate the proceeds and move to Koinonia Farm, a Christian commune in Americus, Ga. It was there that they conceived their first ideas about building homes with no-interest mortgages for the poor. The family packed up for Mbandaka, Zare (now Democratic Republic of Congo), in 1973 to develop a program there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Millard Fuller | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...left Congo with the memory of one more sign. At MONUC headquarters I found a display of the achievements of Indian peacekeepers. Pictures of the soldiers with refugees were captioned GUARDIANS OF THE LOCAL POPULACE and DO NOT WORRY, WE ARE THERE. In pride of place was a display of pictures and letters detailing how the Indians extracted the body of a Chinese climber from the crater of the nearby Nyiragongo volcano. Above these was a proud banner reading BEYOND MANDATE. Retrieving a dead Chinese tourist from an uninhabited, uncontested mountain may be noble work. But the responsibility to protect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo Seeks Protection | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

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