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Sudan's killing fields have grown. Fighting along Darfur's western border has spilled into Chad, where a separate civil war is brewing, and rebel attacks against Chinese-run oil fields and Sudanese police garrisons in the neighboring region of Kordofan threaten to push the war eastward. The rebels say the attacks against China's assets are justified by Beijing's support for the Sudanese regime. But while China has since exerted some limited pressure on Khartoum to resolve its crises, the rebel raids could serve only to expand the theater of hostilities...
...Garth O. McCavana, the GSAS associate dean for student affairs, called the 80-page report “very well-prepared” and a “good spur to us to push [parental policies] forward,” while cautioning that a better deal for student parents might have to wait on University officials...
Although Harvard fell behind early in game two, it quickly regained control of the match, battling back on a 5-0 run to break a 12-12 tie. Junior captain Brady Weissbourd slammed down a kill in the middle of the frame to push the Crimson ahead, 20-16. Entering the match, Weissbourd was ranked second in the EIVA and led the team in kills per game with an average of .489. Weissbourd registered nine kills last night for a .583 hitting percentage...
...edge is now only 238 to 199. "When you look at the numbers, this is a fistfight," says a Clinton strategist. "It is going to be a much more rugged fight, because her lifeline is these uncommitted delegates, and they can be shaky sometimes." Obama's team continues to push the case that the supers ought to follow the lead of the pledged delegates for the sake of party unity...
Unlike most Palestinian terrorist attacks, intended to cause the highest number of casualties, usually in cafes or bus stations, Thursday's attacker chose a highly symbolic target. Mercaz Harav seminary is the birthplace of the Jewish religious nationalist movement, which is behind the push to build Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territory of the West Bank. Now, one senior police officer told TIME, there is concern that some bands of armed settlers may take revenge against nearby Arab villages...