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...campus, called his brother in another Kenyan town. “He said people were screaming,” Kitur recalled. The death toll currently exceeds 700, Agence France-Presse reported yesterday. At a gathering of Kenyan undergraduates on campus last week led by Joseph K. Mwaura, a visiting fellow in the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, about 10 students met to discuss the situation and possible ways to help. So far, the group has set up a bank account and has began gathering donations for humanitarian relief. Earlier, on Oct. 18, the State Department issued a warning...
...chairman, the state's former Governor, David Beasley, stood behind Huckabee as he celebrated his third-place finish in New Hampshire. In an interview afterward, Beasley argued that Huckabee could be an unstoppable force, marrying his populist momentum from Iowa with an Establishment tie to the state as a fellow Southern Governor. "McCain will get a small bump," Beasley said of the Arizona Senator's New Hampshire win. But, he predicted, it would not be enough. In 2000 Beasley backed another Southern Governor, George W. Bush, in a triumph over McCain. Eight years later, Beasley foresees history repeating itself...
...what can be done--for the people of Kenya and their 788 million fellow sub-Saharan Africans? For the West, part of the answer lies in holding African governments accountable for the graft and misrule that sow popular disgruntlement. The West largely contents itself with the appearance of democracy in Africa, not the reality, and gives billions of dollars in aid to corrupt governments. "The World Bank runs around establishing anti-corruption commissions," says Joel Barkan, a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington who was in Kenya for the vote. "They have been singularly...
...increased Internet prices are new users who figure if it's getting more expensive, they can keep doing without it," Mandela says. But with annual French internet access increasing by nearly 14% per year - and by more than 22% for fast connections - Sarkozy may be banking on something his fellow cash-strapped leaders may also get hip to: internet access just isn't optional for most people any more. "These days, there just aren't many people who could respond to higher Internet prices by saying, 'Forget it, I'll just do without the net from now on,'" Mandela says...
...state's former governor, David Beasley, flew north to stand behind Huckabee when he celebrated his third-place finish in New Hampshire. In an interview afterward, Beasley argued that Huckabee could be an unstoppable force, marrying both an insurgent appeal and an establishment tie to the state as a fellow southern governor. "McCain will get a small bump," Beasley said of the Arizona Senator's New Hampshire victory. But he predicted that it would not be enough. In 2000, Beasley backed another southern governor, George W. Bush, in a triumph over McCain. Eight years later, he saw history repeating itself...