Word: drought
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...true that we had a dependency," says Mahamoud Mohamed Uluso, a minister in the Barre government. But once the cold war ended, the money dried up. What followed made many donor nations wary of getting involved in Somalia again. A U.N. operation to feed starving Somalis during a prolonged drought ended after continued clan fighting, while the failure of the related U.S.-led intervention force created a one-word rationale for America's reluctance to intervene in far-off trouble spots: Somalia. No Western country recognizes the new government, though both Italy, the former colonial power in the south...
...wonders how to apply that vocabulary to the current election. The present election has been a depressing drought for anyone who cares about music and the politics of sexiness. One shudders to think whose Doppelganger Al Gore '69 is, if Clinton is heir to the King. Perhaps Pat Boone? Gary Lewis? Better, I think, not to stretch, and instead to wait for a politician who has half the gusto of a Clinton or a Pierre Trudeau. Our natural disgust for the insipid, bloodless legalism of this election, coupled with Marcus' insights on our attraction to political depravity, go a long...
After suffering a six-year drought since its last Ivy title, Brown is poised to make a run at the league championship again this season. The Bears will rely heavily on sophomore guard Barbara Maloni, who averaged more than 20 points per game last season and was named second-team All-Ivy for her offensive prowess...
After suffering a six-year drought since its last Ivy title, Brown is poised to make a run at the league championship again this season. The Bears will rely heavily on sophomore guard Barbara Maloni, who averaged more than 20 points per game last season and was named second-team All-Ivy for her offensive prowess...
...lights were out except for those in the foyer that illuminated the colorful portrait of Kim Jong Il and his father Kim Il Sung. The D.P.R.K. lost an estimated half a million people to famine in the mid-'90s, and even now, because of this year's spring drought and fall typhoons, many in the countryside must supplement their diet with "wild foods," meaning berries, mushrooms and even grasses, according to the World Food Program...