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Four years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Gustav and Ike have once again brought disaster relief closer to the fore of our national political consciousness. While the delay of the Republican National Convention unveiled a new level of care for the disaster victims, more attention still needs to be paid to these devastating natural events—not only here in the United States, but amongst our Caribbean neighbors as well. In Haiti, 800,000 people require immediate aid, while infrastructure has suffered an estimated $4 billion worth of damage from Hurricane Ike alone. In light of the magnitude...
...child, my biggest dream was to go and succeed there,” Mills said. “So I fulfilled the first part, I got there, but I didn’t do so well.”Competing in epee solely on the individual level, Mills made it to the round of 32 before being eliminated, finishing 22nd. Cross made it to the round of 32 in the foil before succumbing to nerves and posting a 17th-place finish.“I think I was definitely overwhelmed,” Cross said. “There?...
...between the teams have been close, with last year’s game providing riveting action for all in attendance. In 2007 both teams came into the match-up ranked in the top 25. The Crimson took the lead twice in the first half but went into the break level in what was a goal-filled opening period. But then co-captain Matt Hoff scored the second-half winner to give Harvard a 3-2 win in its first game of the season. “It’s been close the last two years...
...this era of Atlantic trade, Europeans rarely ventured inland and instead relied on Africans to supply them with enslaved persons captured in raids or through warfare. Of course, even if the Europeans were altering the course of a preexisting, domestic slave trade, this horror remains paramount. Europeans introduced a level of terror and exploitation to the Atlantic slave trade that killed literally millions of Africans. Ghana’s coast was host to European slave “castles,” which were fortresses of despair in which hundreds of people shared prison cells filled with human waste...
...Obviously, Professor Matory will be a huge loss to our department,” she wrote in an e-mailed statement. “His research and teaching cover Africa and the Americas. This level of breadth will be hard to duplicate, if not impossible...