Word: drought
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Such are the minor tragedies that can accompany a superbly successful season. By regaining the Ivy League title this season after a two-year drought, the Crimson once again reached the point where a trip to NCAAs could be considered ultimately unsatisfying...
...been almost a quarter of a century since the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an affirmative-action case about college admissions--but the University of Michigan Law School may break the drought. Last week a bitterly divided federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 5 to 4 in favor of the school's race-conscious admissions policy. Lawyers for Barbara Grutter, a white woman whose Michigan application was rejected, are already working on her appeal. "It's time for the Supreme Court to weigh in and explain better what the law is in this area," says Terence Pell...
Adams House—once more known for its artists than for its athletics—ended a 67-year-long drought Wednesday by winning the Straus Cup, the intramural (IM) athletics championship award, for the first time in the Cup’s history...
ZIMBABWE Disastrous State The government declared a state of disaster to deal with critical food shortages, authorizing emergency measures to assist food distribution. The proclamation blamed the "prevalent drought," but relief officials said that agricultural disruption caused by government-sanctioned farm invasions had worsened the problem. The country was once a net grain exporter, but now more than half the population of 13 million urgently needs food...
SOUTHERN AFRICA Food Emergency The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) warned that more than 5 million people faced starvation as the effects of a regional drought worsened. Launching an appeal for urgent international funding to avert a humanitarian crisis, the WFP said the number needing emergency relief in the region was expected to double in the next few months. The agency is already trying to feed 2.6 million people in Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe...