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...Since defecting to the government in 1996, Ieng Sary has regularly denied any knowledge of the regime's policies of extermination. Ieng Thirith has been even more vocal: several years ago, she made a withering written attack on Youk Chhang, Cambodia's foremost genocide researcher, claiming his years of research into the alleged crimes of Khmer Rouge regime had found not a shred of incriminating evidence and that his work was nothing "but lies and defamation...
Every two years, an excited crowd of the world's foremost primatologists emerge from distant jungles and lonely labs, and gather together to powwow about the state of their charges. Unfortunately, the news is not always good. Last month, the results of this biennial conversation were published in the 2006-2008 Primates in Peril report, the fourth of its kind, a compilation of the planet's 25 most endangered primate species. "If you took the remaining individuals of these species and gave them a ticket to a football stadium, they would not fill it," says Russell Mittermeier, president of Conservation...
...which is racked with problems. In the process, according to seven former and current staffers, he is alleged to have censored politically embarrassing reporting, which many argue has helped obscure the corrosive effect of widespread corruption in Iraq. "One consistent element in these allegations is that you believe your foremost mission is to support the Bush Administration, especially with respect to Iraq and Afghanistan, rather than act as an independent and objective check on waste, fraud and abuse on behalf of U.S. taxpayers," said Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which has an ongoing...
...fairly evenly matched, and in the championship meet environment, anything could happen.But Cummins has a concrete goal in mind for her team. “We’re hoping to come back and beat Yale again this weekend,” she said. “First and foremost, we want to improve on our recent performances at Heps,” Saretsky added. With the momentum generated by Harvard’s rookies, that shouldn’t be hard to do. “We push each other to do well,” Richardson said...
...Oppression of Women in Islam’” and “sit-ins in Women’s Studies Departments and campus Women’s Centers.” This is completely ill-informed: Feminist scholars have been among the foremost analysts and critics of women’s systematic mistreatment in all Judeo-Christian societies, including Islamic ones. Moreover, feminist academics—especially in the last 30 years—have been explicitly dedicated to self-criticism, acknowledging their own biases and situated knowledge, as well as the complexity of even speaking about...