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PetroChina is a spin-off of the China National Petroleum Company, which is involved in a more than $1 billion joint venture with the Sudanese government to boost that country??€™s oil production. Revenues from the venture are filling the coffers of the Sudanese regime, which the U.S. government says is guilty of genocide against its own people...
Richard Wilson, the Mallinckrodt research professor of physics, was an outspoken critic of the Khartoum regime during its conflict with rebels in the south of Sudan. And he has volunteered to join the human rights group Christian Solidarity on a mission to the eastern part of the country??€”although the trip was postponed due to security concerns...
...more than 12,000 members of Congress since the country??€™s founding, only 215 have been women. Today, women hold only 14 percent of the seats of U.S. Congress while they account for 52 percent of the population. It wasn’t until 1948 that a woman, Margaret Chase Smith, became elected to the Senate in her own right. And it would take 54 more years before a woman, Nancy Pelosi, would earn the top leadership position in a national party in the House of Representatives...
...assistant secretary for border and transportation security policy and planning, said his agency is now making a special push to ensure that foreign students aren’t deterred from studying in the United States. The push responds to a 32 percent drop in international student applications to the country??€™s graduate schools...
...most important statistic? Forty-two years. That’s how long rowing legend Harry Parker has been at the helm for the Harvard heavyweights, and that’s how long the Crimson has dominated across the country??€”since two years before the Head of the Charles Regatta was first held...