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...Darfur remains the foremost ranking humanitarian crisis on the UN “watchlist,” the new buzzword amongst activists is the Genocide Intervention Fund (GIF), launched on Thursday. April 7 by Swarthmore college students, Mark Hanis and Andrew Sniderman. The premise behind GIF is that AU forces on the ground in Darfur should be provided with funds to cover their non-lethal weapon needs. At a conference organized in February by the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, the Swathmore undergrads sold their idea to students from 92 colleges around the country, who reviewed and reworked this...
...truly honored and humbled by getting this really powerful position,” Moore said. He added that as president, he plans to “first and foremost increase the cohesion within and without the organization...
...Tull is a giddy, then abruptly deadly daughter. The most remarkable aspect of Director Robin Lynn Smith's production is the showcase it provides for Kathy Bates, 37, who since her Tony-nominated performance in 1983's night, Mother has firmly established herself as one of the nation's foremost character actresses. Although Bates is capable of gothic comic excess, here she underplays the mother as a frustrated housewife, aware of a larger world of culture and glamour outside somewhere but awkwardly uncertain about just what she is missing. Bates perfectly balances the ruthless selfishness of the mother's ambitions...
...prices have passed $50 abarrel, and fears abound that they're headed higher over the long term. What's next for oil, and what might higher prices mean for the global economy? To find out, AMY FELDMAN debriefed DANIEL YERGIN, one of the world's foremost oil experts. Yergin, 58, is chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a member of the Secretary of Energy's advisory board and author of the Pulitzer prizewinning book The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power...
First and foremost, we should celebrate the divestment itself. Harvard’s investment in PetroChina contributed to supporting a massive genocide (400,000 dead, 10,000 more each month) by supporting the Sudanese Government. We celebrate the end of that divestment because we hope it contributes to ending the genocide...