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...weight of my father's life in letters is heavy, but the lightness of his spirit and the easy way of his heart are evident throughout. In a letter addressed to me when I was still a baby, he wrote, "There were no 'Northern Lights' last night but there was a big moon and a sky full of stars shining down on the glaciers and snow covered peaks. It was a beautiful night with a constant breeze that seems to come from out among the stars and it seems at times that if you listen very carefully it will whisper...
...white farmers have been murdered since 1991, the inquiry revealed that only 2% of the attacks were racially or politically motivated. Stoning Overturned NIGERIA A woman convicted for adultery and sentenced to death by stoning under Shari'a law won her second appeal at a court in the northern state of Katsina. The ruling brought relief to President Olusegun Obesanjo, who was under pressure from Western governments and the E.U. to stop the sentence being carried out. Amina Lawal would have been the first person to be stoned to death since Shari'a law was adopted by 12 predominantly Muslim...
Behind an energized crowd, the Bears sent Harvard packing without the revenge the squad has sought since last season’s Northern Division championship, when underdog Brown stole the game from out beneath its nose in the game’s final moments...
...addition, many developing nations find their own domestic markets flooded with lower priced northern commodities. After NAFTA, for example, Mexican farming communities were devastated by U.S. agricultural exports. In a truly perverse turn of events, U.S. subsidies turned what should have been a Mexican comparative advantage in agriculture into a Mexican dependency on U.S. exports. Simply put, it’s hypocritical of the U.S. and the E.U. to force the world’s poorest countries to open their markets even as they themselves prove chronically unwilling to cut back their own subsidies...
While it was heartening to see the developing nations display such solidarity in Cancun, the breakdown of the trade talks means that northern subsidies will not disappear anytime soon. Worse, the rich nations will likely turn their energies to negotiating bilateral and regional trade agreements in order to circumvent the WTO altogether. These smaller scale trade deals would handicap the developing countries, picking apart the united front which they posed in Cancun. To many advocates of developing nations, the WTO suddenly doesn’t look quite...