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Democracy in South Africa Re "Why South Africa's Over the Rainbow" [April 20]. While the concern around a Zuma presidency is warranted, opposition parties to the ANC will fight to prevent the country sliding into chaos. South Africa is the greatest country in Africa, and is worth fighting for. S.K. Sonderup, PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA...
...abusing Iraqi inmates at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. Act I resulted in an avalanche of congressional hearings, 15 Pentagon probes and courts-martial. More than 400 U.S. troops - but no senior officials - went to jail or were otherwise punished. Congress passed the Detainee Treatment Act to try to prevent future atrocities...
...Harvard’s director of community relations for Boston, at Wednesday’s construction management meeting. The University and the City are planning to address the rodent issue by providing local residents with tough plastic trash containers by the summer’s end to prevent rodent proliferation—not as a result of “any of this [recent] foolishness or hysteria,” McCluskey said at the meeting, but rather because it represented a “general quality of life issue” that Harvard felt it should address in accordance with...
...National Teen Pregnancy Awareness Day and declared herself committed to discouraging behavior that would leave other girls in the same predicament she finds herself in. "Regardless of what I did personally," she told Chris Cuomo on Good Morning America, "abstinence is the only ... 100% foolproof way you can prevent pregnancy." (Read: A Brief History of Abstinence...
When Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with E.U. leaders in Prague on May 6 for a summit to launch talks on a free trade agreement, they should have been exchanging handshakes and back slaps. Instead, they were straining to prevent their summit from being hijacked by an unlikely agitator: the baby seal...