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...there may be a timely and effective solution to halt the killing sprees in Darfur: a mercenary army. Mercenary armies are often composed of former or current soldiers lured away by the high pay of the private sector. As New York Times reporter Elizabeth Rubin puts it, they are “willing to do what the United Nations cannot: take sides, take casualties, deploy overwhelming force and fire pre-emptively.” In Sudan, they would come in, protect the civilians from the Janjaweed and the Sudanese army, and remain until the international community asked them to leave...
...years ago, big private banks didn't feature on environmentalists' hit lists; activists focused on large corporate polluters in the oil and timber industries. Over time, though, green groups have realized that one effective way to halt destructive practices is to take on the institutions that bankroll them. "The private financial sector, more than any other, has the ability to begin the ecological U-turn modern society so desperately needs," says Ilyse Hogue, director of the global finance campaign at Rainforest Action Network (ran), which led the fight against JPMorgan Chase. Yet even as they have publicly confronted big financial...
Krieger, who is professor in practice of urban design and best known on campus as the lecturer in the popular undergraduate core class Literature and Arts B-20 “Designing the American City” is in the midst of an uphill struggle to halt the construction of a pricey professional sports stadium along the Hudson...
...embattled mayor, who has declared his candidacy for the 2006 presidential election, is facing charges leveled by Mexican President Vicente Fox’s conservative government that Obrador ignored a court order to halt construction of a city road in a disputed location...
Currently, pedestrians have to walk out into the street in order to halt traffic...