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Meanwhile, the man running the U.N.'s probe of the scandal-ridden program scrambled last week to protect some of his findings from Congress. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker demanded that investigators on Capitol Hill return boxes of evidence they received from one of his employees who quit last month, associates say, angry because a Volcker report had underplayed criticism of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Concerned about leaks, Volcker said the documents included names of confidential sources "whose lives quite literally would be at risk if information about their cooperation became known...
...media-savvy co-founder, who coined the term Rainbow Warriors to describe the environmental group's hard-charging activists; of prostate cancer; in Toronto. The brusque former journalist devised clever slogans and spectacular events to garner maximum TV coverage for such campaigns as those to stop whale hunting, protect baby seals and reform logging practices...
...understand that we wish to protect our students, but some of the places embargoed are simply not all that dangerous. For example, it does not make sense to ban students from all 2 million square kilometers of Indonesian territory. Obviously, there are safe places and there are less safe places; it’s a big country. How unfair and unnecessary it would be to simply lump everything together...
...high pay of the private sector. As New York Times reporter Elizabeth Rubin puts it, they are “willing to do what the United Nations cannot: take sides, take casualties, deploy overwhelming force and fire pre-emptively.” In Sudan, they would come in, protect the civilians from the Janjaweed and the Sudanese army, and remain until the international community asked them to leave. In the meanwhile they would establish a peace, which could actually be kept by peace-keepers. Call it outsourcing...
...Bush administration and Congress have declared that black Muslim Darfur residents are the victims of genocide. But critics of the administration say the U.S. has not done enough to protect villagers from government-backed Arab militias...