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...round Sunday against Fordham’s Dominique Ligouri. Peterzan emerged victorious 6-0, 6-0, a tally made even more impressive by Ligouri’s singles draw seeding of 17. “I thought it would be a little closer, but [Peterzan] was just on a mission,” Green said. “When [she] gets going, she’s very hard to stop.” Taking on another seeded player in the third round, Peterzan was unable to continue her run through the draw. She was defeated...
There can be no greater indictment of a peacekeeping mission than when it is attacked by the people it was sent to protect. But that is what's happening to the U.N.'s biggest peacekeeping mission, the 17,000 blue helmets in the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.) known by the French acronym MONUC. On Monday, one person died when hundreds of protesters attacked the mission in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, on the border with Rwanda. The protesters say the U.N. is not doing enough to protect them from an advancing rebel army. Several U.N. compounds...
...soil. R2P was born from the collective shame over global inaction during atrocities in places such as Cambodia, Rwanda and Srebrenica. The most striking current example of R2P in effect is in Darfur, where the U.N. has agreed to deploy 26,000 peacekeepers to end genocide. It is a mission that, if fully staffed, would supercede that in the D.R.C. as the biggest in the world. "The concept is focused on mass atrocity crimes," says Gareth Evans, who heads global-conflict watchdog the International Crisis Group and who launched a book, Responsibility to Protect, in Washington on Tuesday. "The whole...
...will soon threaten their familial ties. This semblance of peace is soon disturbed by the emergence of Mr. William Hard (Jack C. Cutmore-Scott ’10), an enigmatic foreigner dressed all in black who confronts the family with an extraordinary circumstance. While Hard’s literal mission is obvious—to inform Ray that he is a “duplicate” and must be replaced—his primary objective remains shrouded in the utmost secrecy until the play’s conclusion.The use of language, or in this case, the deliberate manipulation...
...education, the choice isn't more money or more reform - "our schools need both." And on the war, the choice isn't isolation or endless war: "I will never hesitate to defend this nation, but I will only send our troops into harm's way with a clear mission and a sacred commitment to give them the equipment they need in battle and the care and benefits they deserve when they come home...