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...punch". An American soldier who advised on the scene during the raid pressed the same point. "We could have come out with our side straight away too, but first it has to go up the chain and then come back down," he says. Such a careful, drawn-out process, it seems, may be a luxury the military can ill afford...
...appealing for fresh billions in aid dollars. Congo's conflict has ground on for almost a decade, involving several African armies and leaving nearly 4 million people dead, mostly from disease and starvation. The fighting continues despite an international peace deal and 17,500 U.N. peacekeepers. The force, drawn mainly from Europe and the U.S., is the U.N.'s largest in the world, costing $1.15 billion a year. Yet Time saw no peacekeeper in four days in Katanga. In the village of Mitwaba, a local administrator said about 2,000 Mai Mai guerrillas seem ready to surrender, but fear they...
...class and social conditions--to look at the why of crime where CSI has peered through its microscope at the how. NBC's The Black Donnellys, debuting in the fall, comes from the writers of the Oscar-winning message movie Crash and tells the story of four brothers drawn into the Irish Mob. "They live in a world against impossible odds," says co-creator Bobby Moresco, who loosely based the show, with co-creator Paul Haggis, on his New York City childhood...
...composed of active supporters of Israel, has seized control of U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East and made it reflect Israel’s interests more than those of the U.S. Since its publication in the London Review of Books last Thursday, the authors have drawn heated criticism from many academics, including Harvard’s Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz and longtime Harvard lecturer Martin Peretz, who is also the editor-in-chief of The New Republic...
...Department of Education, Shireman said. And all of the numbers that are currently posted are from 2003-2004. Edie Irons, program associate for TICAS, said the site will be updated as soon as new data becomes available. “There are limitations to the conclusions that can be drawn using the data that exists, but part of our mission is to push for better data collection,” Irons said. Economicdiversity.org is sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which gives grants to solve social and environmental problems, according to the foundation’s web site...