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...assured, death rates plummet. Halting the fighting would allow medical clinics to function, food production to recommence, markets to operate and people to return home from unsanitary refugee camps. Tens of thousands of lives could be saved every month. But as you rightly observe, the political will does not exist to increase the peacekeeping force to a level that would make that possible. It is a shame that the decision to allocate resources in a crisis is too often based on political considerations rather than humanitarian need. Richard J. Brennan, M.D. International Rescue Committee New York City Benjamin Coghlan...
...would allow medical clinics to function, food production to recommence, markets to operate and people to return home from unsanitary refugee camps. The impact on public health is clear: tens of thousands of lives could be saved every month. But as you rightly observe, the political will does not exist to increase the peacekeeping force to a level that would make that possible. It is a shame that the decision to allocate resources in a crisis is too often based on political considerations rather than humanitarian need. Richard J. Brennan, M.D. International Rescue Committee New York City Benjamin Coghlan...
...time at Marquette," says Wade's high school coach, Jack Fitzgerald. But he has improved his game every year in college and the pros, and in 2004, Shaquille O'Neal demanded a trade from the Los Angeles Lakers to the Heat in part because he knew he could co-exist with the ego-free Wade. "Everything that happened in L.A.," says Wade, referring to O'Neal's clashes with Kobe Bryant, "wasn't going to happen here." How humble is Wade? His tithes 10% of his $3.03 million salary to his Chicago church...
...Gaza standards, it was a good wedding: nobody got shot. And it was a hopeful sign that after weeks of mounting tension, the rival Hamas and Fatah factions might be looking for ways to co-exist. Even as Hamas and Fatah gunmen ready for a showdown on the empty streets of the Gaza Strip, leaders of both factions told TIME they are trying to broker a compromise, one that could lead to a power-sharing agreement between Abbas and the Hamas-backed Prime Minister Ismail Haniyah. Atef Ibrahim Adawn, a long-time Hamas member who is now Minister for Refugee...
...would allow medical clinics to function, food production to recommence, markets to operate and people to return home from unsanitary refugee camps. The impact on public health is clear: tens of thousands of lives could be saved every month. But as you rightly observe, the political will does not exist to increase the peacekeeping force to a level that would make that possible. It is a shame that the decision to allocate resources in a crisis is too often based on political considerations rather than humanitarian need. RICHARD J. BRENNAN, M.D. INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE New York City ----------------- BENJAMIN COGHLAN...