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...major parties on the country's Afghanistan policy - and certainly no big-name politicians calling for the 9,000 British troops to be pulled out. But that doesn't mean the U.K.'s newest voters won't have an opinion on the mission. "Right now, all the aid money is being spent in the conflict areas," says Reza Khateb, a program volunteer in Kabul. "If you spend your money in the secure areas, it will be more visible to the people." (Read: "Iraq: Political Turmoil Threatens as Votes Are Counted...
...related issues. The UC has a specific niche to fill on campus—improving student life—and measures like the Crimson Forum are the best way to do so. The UC would be much better off devoting its resources to such programs, rather than wasting time, money, and resources making its elections needlessly secure...
...course, a tough bill would face long odds. The money and power of the financial industry would be arrayed against it. There would be so many arcane moving parts - How much authority for the Fed? Should end users be exempt from derivatives regulation? Should something be done about naked credit default swaps? - that reaching consensus by August would be challenging even if everyone wanted it. And it's not clear that anyone is desperate to have it; there probably won't be another meltdown this year, and Democratic leaders may be content to let Republicans block reform so they...
...famine which killed hundreds of thousands of people, as well as the gumption Geldof showed by pulling together rock stars from the U.S and Britain to help feed the victims. In the days since, however, Geldof has raised eyebrows for his apparent refusal to acknowledge the possibility that money may have been skimmed off the top, which many aid agencies and humanitarian workers say routinely happens in developing nations. In fact, doubts in the last few years about whether relief supplies reach their intended sources in conflict zones have given rise to a whole new way of thinking about humanitarian...
...forcibly moved hundreds of thousands of people from one place to another in a repeat of Soviet-era collectivization campaigns, exacerbating their plight. The rebels, who came to power years later, are partly responsible for people's suffering, too. A CIA report cited by the BBC found that money raised by the insurgents, ostensibly to help the starving, was "almost certainly" diverted for military purposes...