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...will be jointly hosted by Korea and Japan, marking the tournament's first foray outside of either Europe or the Americas. But although South Africa is by far the most viable potential host in Africa, it failed to persuade enough FIFA delegates that it would have sufficiently tamed its rampant crime problem to make it a viable venue for the tens of thousands of foreign fans who travel to the event. In terms of infrastructure and transport Germany, naturally, had a distinct edge, while the 12-hour flying time from Europe to South Africa - and, indeed, the prohibitive distance...
...Jones, who was a member of the Association for African and Afro-American Students, says that self-segregation was rampant at Harvard...
Hard as it may be to believe in this era of information overload, once upon a time we actually worried that we weren't getting enough information. Fears of media monopoly were once rampant - what if the television station and the newspaper in a city were owned by the same family? And what if that family hated, say, corn on the cob? Everyone in that town would be denied important news concerning that noble vegetable. Recognizing the danger inherent in such a scenario, in 1975 the regulators at the Federal Communications Commission stepped in and made a decree...
...planning a conference. From April 17th to 26th the first "Prisons in America" conference will be held on campus, dealing exclusively with prison-related issues. We have scheduled speakers representing a range of perspectives and backgrounds to appeal to a wide audience. Whether you are opposed to wasting money; rampant, systematic abuse; racial bias or just bad, bloated government, prison reform is an issue we all need to face and act upon. We must elevate the level of discussion on these issues, so that we can be tough on crime, not people...
...most part, it is a silent disease. Since the rampant drug-related violence of the '80s is gone, what remains is largely hidden from public view...