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Summers meets with Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 in an effort to mend a rift that threatens to send the prominent member of the Afro-American studies department to Princeton. West’s allegation that Summers questioned his scholarship at an October meeting makes national news...
...emergency in Plateau, suspended the elected governor and appointed a retired army general in his place. These steps, which were later ratified by the National Assembly, were necessary "to stem the tide of what has become near mutual genocide," according to Obasanjo. The state of emergency is unlikely to mend Nigeria's fractures for long. An estimated 130 million people live in Africa's most populous nation, divided about equally between Christians and Muslims, but they are further splintered into about 250 tribes. In the past, religious and ethnic tensions were suppressed by Nigeria's military rulers...
...overcome some deeply ingrained cultural habits," explains Vololoniaina Jeannoda, a researcher at the University of Antananarivo's Botanical Laboratory. "But people, especially the young, are starting to accept that we can't keep up this reckless exploitation of our heritage." Yet even as the country seeks to mend its ways, the law of unintended consequences intervenes. RBG's Dransfield notes that demand for Malagasy lobsters means more palms are chopped down to make lobster pots. Improved rice yields promised to ease the pressure to expand paddies at the expense of forest, but richer rice farmers use their profits...
...post to head a new "superministry" for employment, labor and social cohesion in a revamped government. Chirac is hoping the wild-haired, straight-talking populist will serve as a bulwark against voter anger over Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin's belt tightening, and his failure to generate jobs or mend the social fracture between the country's affluent classes and its disgruntled masses. Voters put the opposition Socialists in charge of 20 of France's 21 mainland regions, up from 8 in 1998. "France has clearly expressed a demand for a more social approach," says Pascal Perrineau, director...
...Stalin-era confessions - might be part of a deal to free Khodorkovsky. Fat chance. Although authorities indicated they would allow Yukos to keep disputed Siberian licenses, the Prosecutor General posted charges against Khodorkovsky's associate Platon Lebedev on its website. "Khodorkovsky is deluding himself if he thinks he can mend fences with Putin," says political analyst Dmitri Furman. It can't hurt to try - By Peter Gumbel. With reporting by Yuri Zarakhovich Someone's Paying The Price Global music-industry trade body IFPI filed the first suits against online piracy outside the U.S. , targeting 250 alleged file sharers in four...