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...history of Darfur and its current situation.On Friday night, panelists described the pattern of rape and murder in the western region of Sudan. Andrew B. Loewenstein, a human rights lawyer commissioned by the U.S. State Department to investigate the genocide in Darfur, talked about his interviews with refugees in Eastern Chad.He said he heard stories of five-year-old African boys being “slaughtered like animals” or thrown into burning tents by the Janjaweed, Arab militia of armed horsemen sponsored by the Sudanese government. He said locals rape women as they leave the refugee camps...
...time, Soviet forces in Europe outnumbered the Western Allies by a ratio of 12 to 1. Luckily, Judt argues, "for American policymakers, Europe's vulnerability was a problem, not an opportunity" and despite some proud grumbling, Western Europeans recognized that truth as Soviet-backed regimes grabbed power across Eastern Europe. The subsequent struggle between capitalism and communism is the leitmotif of postwar Europe until 1989, and Judt takes some choice shots at Western intellectuals enamored by the experiment in "real existing Socialism" playing out inside the Iron Curtain. "I come from a country where no one laughs any more, where...
...dominated by the furor over allegations about CIA activities on European soil in relation to terror suspects. The issue has been the focus of a mounting clamor for answers in the weeks since the Washington Post first alleged that the CIA may have maintained secret prisons in Eastern Europe, culminating in a formal request by the European Union for an explanation. But sources tell TIME that Secretary Rice plans to come out swinging, shifting the focus back to the responsibilities of Europe?s governments in the war on terror...
Questioners grilled her on everything from the influence of Andy Warhol’s Eastern European ancestry on his art to the greater purpose of her studies...
...There’s no draw from eclectic stores.” Stephen Yoccl of Leavitt & Pearce said that his store probably suffers in competition with malls due to a lack of parking and the fact that it couldn’t hold sales. An assistant manager at Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS) in Brattle Square, Kevin Walker, said that business was done very differently at the Harvard Square location than at EMS’s larger outlet stores. He said EMS’s larger stores saw much greater increases with this weekend’s sales, while his branch...