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...says. Wright himself scrawled lines of poetry on his white T-shirt. Popular T-shirt messages can range from the poetic to the political. These days, students can pick up a cause like they pick up laundry, with T-shirts meant to support Darfur (“Save Darfur??), Obama (“BaRock My World”), and awareness about AIDS (the newly-popular “HIV-Positive” tees). But sometimes, casual campaigning can underplay the seriousness of an issue. “I get mad when I see people wearing shirts...
Burma is not Sudan. Some observers believe that the Burmese junta’s campaign against ethnic minorities is a “genocide” under international law, but the death toll has not yet reached Darfur??s horrific heights. Still, Harvard should take little solace in the fact that the Burmese government has killed thousands (as opposed to hundreds of thousands) of its own people. The same “pattern of circumstances” characterizing the PetroChina-Sudan relationship is also present in the Chevron-Burma tie. Just as PetroChina’s parent company...
...closed the speech with a story of an acquaintance—an aid worker in Darfur??who was so stricken by the horror of her experiences there that she was reduced to tears upon the simple sight of a birdfeeder...
...system is remarkably simple: The “Crisis in Darfur?? interface adds a layer to Google Earth that makes the region’s sorrows interactively accessible to anyone that has downloaded the free software. Any user can zoom in on burning villages and access pictures and text describing what has happened there. Maps, text, and images are seemingly worth much more than a thousand words...
...that is user-friendly and that people will enjoy using, something that has a function and purpose.” And starting next Wednesday, “Brring!” will offer users the option of donating their accrued earnings to the non-profit “Aid Darfur?? campaign. The company will also play messages from the campaign in place of some advertisments. “This is definitely one of the more exciting things about the service we’re offering,” Tanjeloff said. All told, there are eight members...