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...your report on the plight of fathers who are shut out of their children's lives by divorce or the legal system [Sept. 27]: The high divorce or separation rate for marriages in the European Union is well known. In a romantic situation, things develop very rapidly. You get to know and love each other, you marry after six months, and then comes the first baby. After all those developments, you find out that your partner isn't the right person, as you believed at the beginning. Don't know what to do? Divorce, of course. And then the difficulties...
...think the country can take four more years of this kind of experience." JOHN EDWARDS, claiming the Administration of President George W. Bush has ignored the plight of poor Americans and mismanaged Iraq, during the same debate...
Largely ignored in the current coverage of the crisis in Iraq is the continuing plight of the Kurdish people. The slaughter of Saddam’s gas attacks in the late 1980’s stands out in the public consciousness, yet few have a historical perspective broad enough to truly understand the duration and severity of the oppression that has been foisted upon the Kurds...
...anachronistic or misguided, it might be time to resurrect the Pan-African focus in order to combat the most severe crisis in the African Diaspora since colonialism. We live in a world where those with power and resources are either flagrantly inattentive or maliciously disengaged from this plight because there is no joint intellectual and grassroots pressure. For example, we praise President Bush’s $15 billion AIDS initiative, but Europeans spend $11 billion a year on ice cream alone. For those not yet convinced, I offer the lack of sufficient response to the rampant genocide of black Africans...
...life. And so, beginning in 1997, Tenberken traveled the mountain country on horseback with a Tibetan health counselor, crossing treacherous passes and sleeping in yurts, which were often visited by rats. She was prepared for the rigors of the journey, but less so for what she discovered about the plight of Tibet's blind. "It was depressing," she remembers. "We met kids who had been tied to a bed for years so they didn't hurt themselves. Some couldn't walk because their parents hadn't taught them." Appalled, Tenberken, with support from her Dutch partner Paul Kronenberg, a development...