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...executive director James Morris said last week. Niger has been here before. Between 1968 and 1973 a severe drought across the Sahel killed as many as a quarter of a million people. In The Fate of Africa, an excellent new history of the continent since independence, writer Martin Meredith explains that drought "was only one aspect of the problem." Rapid population growth had forced peasants northward into pastoral areas that were too arid for permanent farms. "The overall result was overgrazing, overcultivation and deforestation on a catastrophic scale." A massive Western relief effort poured some $7.5 billion of aid into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Aid Is Not Enough | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

Gloucester District Court Judge Richard Mori dismissed charges of trespassing, larceny, and malicious destruction of property against Monrad Professor of Economics Martin L. Weitzman on Monday in relation to an April incident in which Weitzman was accused of trying to steal a truckload of manure from a Rockport, Mass., horse farm...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ec Professor Settles in Manure Theft Suit | 8/5/2005 | See Source »

...Lisa Martin, who was recently appointed special advisor to Kirby on matters related to gender, racial, and ethnic diversity, cautioned in an e-mail that data from any one year do little to indicate a commitment, or lack thereof, to diversity...

Author: By William C. Marra, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Increases Female Tenure Offers | 8/5/2005 | See Source »

Contestants presented each piece de resistance to a panel of judges that included Dean of the Summer School Robert Lue and HUDS Director of Culinary Operations Martin Breslin...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Flex Culinary Muscles | 8/5/2005 | See Source »

...promise I will become a spokesperson, if you allow me to ... on your behalf. I will defend you and try to get rid of any stereotypes." RICKY MARTIN, pop star, offering to help change negative perceptions of Arab youth in the West

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 8/1/2005 | See Source »

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