Word: existing
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...Such trends, however, should not dictate the bounds of objective analysis of the organization. The frequently unreported successes of the UN should also be remembered. It has been credited with the peaceful settlement of 172 regional conflicts since 1945. For every Bosnian quagmire or Somalian fiasco dominating headlines, there exist the examples of Cambodia's post-civil war transition to normalcy and South Africa's first universal election, both of which were coordinated by the UN. In fact, the UN has enabled free and fair elections in forty-five countries in the past 50 years...
...Washington Post, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, the overall television and newspaper coverage was not substantive enough to voice the full effect of the march. We wonder why it takes thousands of people converged at the front of the White House to prove that we exist...
...marriage predictably dissolves within the first twenty pages and Stewart quickly packs off to Senegal compelled by her lifetime obsession that she has always been "meant to exist elsewhere". Her excuse for the trip is dissertation research which requires her to interview and study with a Senegalese poet and activist, Ibrahim Mangane. Mangane, however, is not a purely educational pursuit, but rather an obsession and the embodiment of everything that Stewart wants. Happily married but infamous for his numerous affairs with young women, he is everything but the traditional young, stable and picture perfect...
Professor of Government Gary King emphasized the need for making the Faculty aware of support services that already exist...
...Story of Little Black Sambo [BOOKS, Sept. 9], let's at least get the facts correct. Anyone who has ever read the original Sambo story knows it has nothing to do with Africa, but was set in India. For one thing, wild tigers are not found in Africa; they exist only in Asia. Also, Africans are not the only black people in the world. The dark-skinned folk in the story have characteristics similar to those of an ethnic group in southern India. To assume that the story is set in Africa shows that people really don't know much...