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...group, the Lord’s Resistance Army, has displaced 1.7 million people, according to Human Rights Watch. The conflict is blamed for the abduction of children, an increase in sexual violence, and consequently the spread of AIDS. “The conflict in northern Uganda is the biggest forgotten, neglected humanitarian emergency in the world today,” Jan Egeland, the United Nation’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said in 2003. HHRA and the Harvard College Coalition for Ugandan Peace (HCCUP) held last night’s class to show students...
...Director of Social Welfare in 1986 - and the bungled opening of Hong Kong's new airport in 1998, which Chan had been tasked with monitoring. By the time she resigned in early 2001 - after being bullied by Beijing to support her then boss Tung - the gaffes were long forgotten...
...much of that was forgotten or forgiven Monday night when the fresh, young Rockies tromped on the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-4 to win the National League Championship Series in Denver and sweep into the World Series--a development as unfathomably pleasant for Denverites as Mayor John Hickenlooper changing his last name to Jones...
...That is not to say, however, that the administration is totally off the hook. Student group funding still remains a glaring problem, and recent developments cannot erase the rash behavior of both the administration and the UC. Nonetheless, we are glad to see that the administration has not completely forgotten the deleterious side effects the funding war may very well have on student life...
Since then, American tips have grown even bigger, while Europeans have forgotten their munificence. Today in Western Europe, moderate service charges are often tacked onto bills. Even in the U.K. a paltry 10 percent tip is the norm in restaurants. In Eastern Europe and in much of Scandinavia, tipping is not expected, but occasionally done, and in countries like Japan, New Zealand, and Vietnam, tipping is simply not practiced...