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...tiny border town of Busia, Kenya, about 235 miles northwest of Nairobi. The throng was there to greet the first convoy of cars and buses carrying nearly 300 Americans, Europeans and Asians who were evacuated from Uganda last week following the coup on July 27 that ousted President Apollo Milton Obote. In contrast to the friendly welcome, the travelers gave chilling eyewitness accounts of the confusion and fear that shook the Ugandan capital of Kampala after the coup. Bands of drunken soldiers armed with Soviet-made Kalashnikov rifles, sometimes replaced by gangs of thugs brandishing long knives, roamed through...
...sure, Coulter is far from the most accomplished conservative presence in America today. Even post-OxyContin, Limbaugh has greater reach; Sean Hannity has his own TV show; old-guard guys like William Kristol and George Will have more power in Washington. Countless conservative scholars--Thomas Sowell, Milton Friedman, Richard Posner--write with greater intellectual heft...
Patrick was born into poverty but gained a scholarship to attend Milton Academy in Milton, Mass. After completing his undergraduate studies at the College, he went on to Harvard Law School, where he received his J.D. in 1982. Patrick’s wife, Diane, served as director of Harvard’s Office of Human Resources...
Gradually but inexorably, the momentum kept building. Earlier this month the government of violence-racked Uganda (estimated pop. 14.5 million) was denounced yet again by Amnesty International for torturing its political opponents. Two weeks later fighting broke out between soldiers belonging to President Apollo Milton Obote's Lango tribe and those from the Acholi clan, prompting Obote to tell a group of senior military men that they were welcome to try to wrest power from him if they coveted his "hot seat...
Harvard researchers have been at the forefront of stem cell research through the newly founded Harvard Stem Cell Institute. In January, University Provost Steven E. Hyman approved cloning human cells to generate stem cells as part of research conducted by Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences Douglas A. Milton and Harvard Biologist Kevin C. Eggan...