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Neither candidate has played up his Harvard background. Obama’s convention speech followed an American dream narrative: the son of a Kansan mother and a Kenyan father with a Harvard Ph.D, he referred to himself simply as “a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too,” and didn’t mention his Ivy League background...
...would take place by the end of 2005. Surveys show that more than 70% of Poles are opposed to their country's military presence in Iraq. One More Time SUDAN Peace talks between southern rebels and the government aimed at ending 21 years of civil war resumed in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. The two sides were to finalize details of a peace plan they had already agreed in principle. The two-year-long negotiations have been overshadowed by the separate conflict in Sudan 's western Darfur region. Back in the Saddle AUSTRALIA Prime Minister John Howard said...
...farmed grass grows thick and trembles in the wind. On the other side, the ground is nearly bare, chewed down in places to the rocky topsoil. In between are splintered fence poles and scattered strands of electric wire that, until last month, closed off a 20,000-hectare central Kenyan commercial ranch from the communal grazing lands of Masai herdsmen. To the Masai, most of whom make their living raising cows, sheep and goats, the landscape's stark divide is testimony to their need for grazing lands. With a population of about half a million, the Masai...
...resentment, even when it is camouflaged with a smile, as it was by John Edwards last Wednesday night and, less felicitously, by Al Gore in the 2000 campaign. The idea of an expansive, inclusive United States of America--a vision presented elegantly on Tuesday night by Barack Obama, the Kenyan-Kansan Senate hopeful from Illinois--has always been the straightest path to the country's heart, as Bill Clinton proved in 1992. These days, the choice has little to do with policy. Edwards and Obama, Clinton and Gore differ on few issues. But there is no more basic strategic...
...Four years since arriving from Nairobi, Marumba, 48, is hoping communities like Laverton, Coonanna and Norseman will immerse themselves in the waters of his faith. "If you go to most of the Aboriginal communities, you'll find vandalism there," the Kenyan says. "Property has been destroyed. (There's been) no proper handing over, no proper overseeing." The same goes for Christianity, he believes. After the missionary societies began withdrawing from the area in the 1970s, "those people starved spiritually," he says. "Now we are trying to revive - that is what Malarrpa is all about." Three years ago, Marumba approached...