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...cease-fire ended, Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir met with TIME at his palace in Khartoum and insisted that the international outcry over his country's rupture was a misunderstanding. There is "no reality," he said, to claims that the conflict is genocide, as President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell have said. It is "a tribal conflict," said al-Bashir, who came to power in a 1989 coup. The Janjaweed are merely "outlaws or gangsters who are used to being on horseback and holding arms or guns. They are bandits," he said. "It was started...
...work covering everything from leadership to finances, followed by a yearlong residency at a school and on-site coaching. NLNS, which is a nonprofit, has placed principals in such cities as New York, Chicago and Memphis, Tenn. Two-thirds of NLNS graduates are women or people of color. Graduate Omar Gobourne, an African American who flew helicopters for the Army in the first Gulf War, went on to help launch the E.L. Haynes charter school in Washington. "My military experience," says Gobourne, "taught me to think on my feet." The New York City-based NLNS is still evolving, but early...
Calling his manager, who had once represented Whitaker, Thompson was able to secure a second, more favorable audition. The second time around, final casting for the role of Fat Albert came down to Thompson and Omar Benson Miller (8 Mile, Sorority Boys), with the part eventually going to the latter. Thompson explains that Fat Albert is the biggest and tallest member of his gang, and that Miller, who stands at 6’5”, is easily the larger...
...Pedro has signed with the Mets because of a seemingly ludicrous offer from first-year GM Omar Minaya, and I am having a lot of trouble rationalizing...
...Meanwhile, despite craters and freshly burned huts and unexploded ordnance, the government denies that it has resumed air raids. In an interview with Time, Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir insisted the crisis was merely a "tribal conflict" that affects "only 6 percent of Greater Darfur" - this despite the fact that it has displaced a full one-third of Darfur's 5 million inhabitants. "Nobody wears a white hat here," says a senior Western diplomat in Khartoum...