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...doubt, many students at Harvard have chosen to engage. Hundreds protested the invasion of Iraq in 2003, because the lives of thousands of Iraqis and young Americans were worth it to them. Some hurled themselves into election campaigns. Others campaigned to call attention to genocide in distant Darfur or to confront injustices closer to home...
...could almost hear the clock ticking last week as diplomats scrambled to find a solution to end the killing in Darfur, western Sudan. In late August, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution calling for a U.N. peacekeeping [an error occurred while processing this directive]force to deploy across the region, where more than 200,000 people have been killed in three years of fighting between rebel groups and government-backed Janjaweed militiamen, whom human-rights groups and the U.S. accuse of murdering, raping, looting and even genocide. But Sudan's government in Khartoum has said U.N. troops...
...Troops to Sudan? Khartoum opposes U.N. move Bluster or backbone? The Security Council will meet Sudanese officials this week to discuss peacekeeping troops for Darfur. Sudan sees a threat to its sovereignty. But the U.N. may act anyway...
Ghosh says that all Baghdad's residents are experiencing "Life in Hell." Iraq isn't exactly paradise, but perhaps Ghosh should have spent time in other places, say, Darfur, the Ninth Ward of New Orleans--or Iraq when it was still under Saddam Hussein's rule. William West Fairborn, Ohio...
...higher purpose. Activist video games--which use whiz-bang formats to address real-world issues--are scoring high with both kids and teachers. Given the success of the U.N.'s aid-relief game Food Force (with more than 4 million downloads in 15 months) and the MTV-affiliated Darfur Is Dying (more than 800,000 players since April), techno do-gooders are proliferating, and gamers are saving the world...