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...Darfur is a test case--not just of the world's commitment to stop genocide but also of its ability to prevent future African resource wars. Already, the fighting in western Sudan has spilled into Chad and the Central African Republic. At the Guereda refugee camp in Chad, near the Sudanese border, staff members from the International Medical Corps increasingly find themselves mediating conflicts between refugees and local farmers, who complain that the influx of refugees has ruined their land. The refugee camps house concentrated populations that are too big for the land to support, and water and firewood...
...rights advocates now believe they have set off a ticking time bomb that will prevent the Democrats from avoiding the gun question in the 2008 presidential election. On March 9, in a case called Parker v. District of Columbia, the federal appeals court in Washington struck down the city's ban on private handgun possession at home, one of the most extreme gun-control laws in the country ever since it was passed in 1976. Only Chicago and a few other Illinois communities have similarly sweeping handgun bans on the books; no state has followed Washington's lead. Gun-rights...
...wave of challenges to many of the moderate regulations that most Americans support. "You could very easily envision a challenge to the Brady Law on the grounds that there shouldn't be background checks for the exercise of a constitutional right," says Dennis Henigan of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Henigan also imagines challenges to the federal machine-gun ban and to a wide array of state licensing and registration laws. And convicted criminals might routinely contest the sentencing laws that increase their jail time for using...
After quickly scoring three unanswered goals in the game’s first eight minutes, Harvard was in the lead for good and mustered a strong enough defensive challenge to prevent the Wildcats from gaining momentum after its goals...
...Memorial Church, marking the last of this year’s Take Back the Night events. These students are continuing the recent tradition of trying to teach their peers about sexual assault—an effort that has been transformed, under the direction of the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR), into a standard aspect of the Harvard student experience.BURDEN OF PROOFNowadays Harvard broaches the subject at the start of freshman year, requiring freshmen to attend mandatory workshops run by OSAPR.But before the office was established, the administration dealt with the issue through the Administrative Board, a mechanism...