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Clinton opened the discussion session with Darfur and global warming, the two major issues that the students had told a campaign manager most concerned college students, said Rahul Prabhakar ’09, co-chair of Harvard Students for Hillary...
Three key players in formulating Darfur divestment policy debated last night at the Barker Center, adding national scope to calls for the University to pull its investments of more than $13 million from companies that deal with the Sudanese government. Hosted by the University Committee on Human Rights Studies, the panel’s lone opponent to divestment faced tough grilling from both spectators and fellow panel members for his opinions. “States can’t make foreign policy,” said J. Daniel O’Flaherty, vice president of the National Foreign Trade Council.O...
...Pulitzer Prizes, the first in 1990 for reporting on the Tiananmen Square movement, and the second in 2006 for his work as a columnist. His Times columns shined a spotlight on the genocide in Darfur and “gave voice to the voiceless in other parts of the world,” according to a statement on the Pulitzer Web site...
...Were justice and reckoning not cheated by the deaths of Milosevic and Pinochet? What about more recent atrocities? On Feb. 27, prosecutors at the International Criminal Court in the Hague presented evidence that a Sudanese government minister and a militia leader were allegedly responsible for war crimes committed in Darfur in 2003 and 2004. When wounds are so fresh, it's difficult to argue for forgiveness...
...Sometimes you have to enjoy the writing more line by line,” Eggers said. “But sometimes you have to use what you know to help along someone else’s story.” Eggers said that the resurgence of violence in Darfur has only made “What is the What” more relevant, and that he and Deng have been touring in order to draw attention to the parallels between the novel and current events.And while he emphasized the importance of telling Valentino’s story...