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CARL BILDT, Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Prime Minister of Sweden, which is involved in a diplomatic row with Cuba after Bildt criticized Cuba's human-rights record recently; a Cuban representative shot back by saying Cuba "does not persecute migrants or carry out ethnic cleansing that only allows ... former Viking conquerors to remain in the country...
...nothing done to reform the vetting process that has blackballed many qualified officials who were tainted by complicity in Saddam Hussein's regime. Indeed, there have been several dramatic low points in Khalilzad's tenure in Baghdad: the bombing of the Samarra shrine that unleashed an unprecedented wave of ethnic cleansing and the mishandled execution of Saddam...
...discussion of diversity in the context of blocking groups, the Houses and the Harvard campus. The event’s co-director, Teddy L. Styles ’07, also announced a new Foundation initiative to promote its mission of improving relations among racial and ethnic groups at Harvard. The Foundation Associates Program will consist of three to five students from each House who will work with race relations tutors to host events that promote or celebrate diversity. Styles said the discussion event was held after blocking forms were due so as not to influence the blocking decisions of freshmen...
...added that “transfer students add as much to diversity as an ethnic group or religious group...
Cracks are beginning to appear in the ranks of Darfur's feared Janjaweed militia - at least that's according to leaders of the rebel forces fighting against the government-backed Arab supremacists that have rained terror on the region's ethnic African villages. Leaders of Darfur's rebel groups based in eastern Chad tell TIME that they believe several Janjaweed leaders are now close to joining the rebels. Their defection would be spurred by fear that the Sudan government may betray Janjaweed commanders to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where they would face war crimes charges...