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...years of armed conflict and massacres in Darfur, which have killed up to 200,000 people and left more than 2 million homeless. He had managed to secure the attendance of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and delegations from more than a dozen other countries, including Sudan's major backer, China. For Kouchner, Sudan's absence was no obstacle to progress. "To whom belongs the suffering of people?" he asks. "To the rest of the world. For that we have to yell and make noise and attract attention...
Given our detachment from the rest of the attendees, we amused ourselves with people-watching. There was the middle-aged man in the Kent State t-shirt, the young women in spaghetti straps and heels. The dozen twenty-something guys in dress shirts, khakis, and black messenger bags. On the periphery stood my two friends and me, undergraduates in a sea of yuppies...
...four helicopters in a pre-dawn assault. Within moments of the helicopters touching down, roughly 75 U.S. paratroopers and a small contingent of Iraqi special forces fanned out through the desert hamlet about 15 miles southeast of Samarra. House after house turned up empty as the soldiers scoured the dozen or so buildings clustered together amid stretches of sandy flatlands covered with thorn brush. U.S. forces had hoped to surprise insurgents thought to be hiding on the outskirts of Samarra, where violence is on the rise. But in the end the raiders found only one older male and 10 women...
...Previously fighters would move through the streets of Samarra in twos and threes. These days groups as large as a dozen or more gather to stage attacks, sometimes driving pickup gun-trucks. U.S. commanders fear that the arrival of the security forces from Baghdad could lead to even more violence in the city, as sectarianism takes root alongside increasing insurgent activity. The weeks ahead could be pivotal. On June 16, Sadr urged Shi'ites to join an annual Shi'ite pilgrimage to Samarra the first week of July. Since then rumors that Sadr himself may appear in Samarra have circulated...
Benkler has written two books and has published over two dozen academic articles in prominent journals such as Science, the Yale Law Journal and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. His 2006 release "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom" and his 2002 essay "Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm" are two of the most important works in the field of cyber law and have changed how researchers perceive economic motivators, Palfrey said...