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...charge of the 19 brothers, and I never assigned brother Zacarias to be with them in that mission...
...school unifying of resources. We do old-fashioned business. We produce good-quality products and services. We know how to market them; we know how to underwrite loans. At the same time, we're fulfilling our mission. It's a big deal that we can transact this anywhere...
...much bigger do you think you need to be to fulfill your mission...
...Joseph Conrad's 1899 book Heart of Darkness. It is in part because of that malign reputation--and because the nation's feckless rulers have consistently reinforced it--that the world has been willing to let Congo bleed. Since 2000, the U.N. has spent billions on its peacekeeping mission in Congo, which is known by its French acronym, MONUC, and it is at the moment the largest U.N. force anywhere in the world. But troops number just 17,500, a tiny presence in such a large country. In February the U.N. and aid groups working in Congo asked...
...camp because they suspected militia fighters were sheltering there. Some Congolese units have split back into their rebel and ethnic parts and turned on one another. The upsurge in rapes, killings and torture by Congo's security forces has become so serious that the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo is debating whether to end its cooperation with the police and army altogether...