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...Crimson editor, for his reporting on the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. Many of Kristof’s columns on the crisis, which began appearing in the fall of 2004, exposed the crimes committed in Darfur through personal accounts from Sudanese refugees who had been forced to flee their homes. Jim Lehrer, the host of The News Hour on Public Broadcasting Service and ten-time presidential debate moderator, was also honored yesterday with a career award for excellence in journalism. In his acceptance speech last night, Lehrer said that traditional journalism is in “a moment...
...their adopted land.As time passed, the oppression and persecution of the Irish began, for most, to dissolve. An Irish Catholic could become a mayor, a governor, or a congressman, and in 1960 a man named Kennedy even became the President of the United States. As the Irish began to flee their urban strongholds in places like the South Bronx, Hell’s Kitchen, and South Boston, the vital need for unity—the force that had driven the Irish to show their strength and argue for their right to exist—began to dissolve as well.And...
...early days, the ardent Liberal-National coalition that replaced 13 years of reformist Labor rule was raw and clumsy. Promises were broken or brazenly reclassified. The ministerial departure lounge attracted frequent flee-ers. But its fat parliamentary majority meant the Howard government did not lack the appetite for transformation or a fight. Inheriting a fiscal mess, the new government's fixers appeared to relish the task of taking money away from universities, welfare recipients and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Taxpayers' assets were passed on for sale to merchant bankers, government debt was shredded, and a shareholder democracy was born. When...
...does not take a sociologist or economist to understand that sanctions are not toppling the regime's leaders. They are merely causing more hardship and suffering among the very people the West wishes to help, and forcing refugees to flee Burma's borders into neighboring countries. Sanctions are tools without teeth. Surely engagement and the promotion of a market economy would prove to be much more feasible. Edward Lim Singapore...
...rising fascist government, which recruits him as a translator. This takes him to Paris, where he meets the love of his life, who agrees to marry him on the strength of one pastry. But a twist of events sparked by the discovery of his Jewish heritage forces him to flee to Shanghai to start anew...