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While diminishing the resources of the ruling Sudanese government helps scale back the genocide, the effects of these efforts will be a long-term decline in the killing. In the meantime, the situation on the ground requires direct physical and financial attention. The enormous number of refugees in Sudan and Uganda need food and water, and without physical protection of some sort they will not be able to return to their homes. Thus far, the African Union (A.U.) has taken the lead in putting troops on the ground. To help finance the A.U. effort, HDAG raises funds for the Genocide...

Author: By John A. La rue, | Title: After Divestment | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

While donations and divestments directly impact the situation on the ground, in the end these are no more than reactive, stop-gap measures. Monetary aid does provide real help to those in need, and provide it faster than the speed of political change, but alone can only mitigate effects and has difficulty reaching the root causes of genocide. Wouldn’t it be better if such efforts were never necessary at all? If genocide prevention were the norm, rather than the exception? This is the ambitious thought behind HDAG’s newest initiative...

Author: By John A. La rue, | Title: After Divestment | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

...line collapsed—allowing three sacks on the final drive—but McDermott remained unfazed. On fourth-and-five at the 45, the Penn quarterback had his helmet turned around by an oncoming Villanova pass rusher. McDermott proceeded to tear the helmet off, throw it to the ground and continue on with the play. The 15-yard facemask penalty set the Quakers up in Wildcats territory...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Close but No Cigar For QB | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

Wednesday, Oct. 5. “Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground.” Robert D. Kaplan, longtime correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, gives an eyewitness account of American armed forces engaged in the war on terrorism in the Philippines, Mongolia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. 6:30 p.m. Harvard Book Store...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall Arts Preview: Readings Listings | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

Acknowledging all of this, Matt and Andrew avoided broad conclusions with fierce determination. Instead, they stuck to safer ground: story-telling. Sitting in the French Quarter, they filled...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eight Weeks in America | 9/29/2005 | See Source »

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