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...hard numbers and quantifications, can yet do little to prevent subtle manifestations of prejudice. For example, at the height of the John Huang “Chinagate” scandal, the March 24, 1997 cover of the National Review portrayed the Clintons in Chinese clothes and hats, holding a pot of tea and displaying buck teeth. Many Asian American groups also complained of widespread discrimination among the community after media coverage of John Huang’s illegal dealings—for example, that the Democratic National Committee subsequently scrutinized (legitimate) Asian American donors far more closely than other contributors...
...compare apples to apples, which is not easy to do in the Byzantine world of grant funding, then here is what you get, according to TIME's calculations: In 2007, 18 small and largely rural states received the minimum funding, each getting about .4% of the total pot. Under the new formula, those states will take home nearly as much - about .375% of the total. That number will decrease slightly each year, bottoming out at .35% in 2012. Yet that means Wyoming, with only .17% of the nation's population, will still qualify for at least twice that share...
...been delayed. A U.N.-backed tribunal was established last year to try those accused of orchestrating the genocidal rampage that killed up to 2 million between 1975 and 1979. But after years of bureaucratic snags and political foot-dragging, the number of suspects left to prosecute is dwindling. Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge regime, died in his sleep at age 73 in 1998. Ta Mok, the feared Khmer Rouge military commander, succumbed at 81 in a Phnom Penh hospital last year...
...justice is not yet denied. Shortly after dawn on Sept. 19, Cambodian police special forces and military police surrounded a small wooden home on the outskirts of Pailin town in the country's northwest and arrested Nuon Chea, the Khmer Rouge's infamous "Brother Number Two," Pol Pot's deputy. Now 82, the most senior Khmer Rouge leader still surviving in Cambodia has had years to prepare for his eventual arrest. He surrendered to the government in 1998 but had been allowed to live in quiet retirement with his wife in a region that was a communist stronghold until...
...susceptible to that influence too. But we are in the middle of Africa, and the challenges to democracy, poverty and development are central to our survival. This is a country of almost 80 million now, diverse cultures and language. So in a way, Ethiopia is a melting pot, a gateway between Africa and the Middle East...