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...through Boston traffic takes courage. These women have real courage and such incredible resolve to organize and continue with their efforts.” Omer Ismail, a research fellow at the Kennedy School and Sudanese native, said he was particularly touched by the women’s descriptions of rampant abuse, such as domestic violence. “The men in these [northwest displacement] camps are basically warehoused, causing them to take out their frustrations on the women,” who are often victims of kidnapping or rape due to trivial feuds, Ismail said...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sudanese Women Promote Rights | 9/26/2006 | See Source »

...religiously tolerant state with a secular government in the volatile region, have obvious appeal for the Bush Administration - so much so that it tends to downplay the country's gagged media; the arbitrary arrests, exiles and murders of opposition leaders; its rubber-stamp political institutions and bogus elections; and rampant corruption, including a $78 million kickbacks-for-oil-rights case that has been pending in the U.S. courts for more than three years. Within the country, the tension between the surging economy and stagnant politics is palpable. Nazarbayev, popularly referred to as "Papa," has used his unlimited powers to pursue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming On Strong | 9/25/2006 | See Source »

...coach Phil Estes, the Bears have a chip on their shoulders from the dis they received in the preseason Ivy media poll, relegated to third place despite a championship in 2005. Harvard has a blue chip in its backfield—Clifton Dawson—who should run rampant over a depleted Brown D. In another intriguing matchup, the Bears start the league’s most experienced signal-caller in Joe DiGiacomo while the Crimson, after the suspension of Liam O’Hagan and the injury to Week One starter Chris Pizzotti, trot out the most inexperienced, Jeff...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Offering A Lone Voice of Dissent | 9/21/2006 | See Source »

...fact, does refer to the media as a “filter” of the news). Instead the type of news found in newspapers, on the radio, and on television can act as a distraction to more important issues. The immense focus on the short-term particulars so rampant in many articles is anathema to Bush’s focus on large blocks of time.Of course, by not picking up a newspaper, the President has stopped himself from picking up a few bad habits, but at the expense of picking up others. By acquiring the whole...

Author: By Charles R. Drummond iv, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No News is Good News (Sort of) | 9/20/2006 | See Source »

...website, which carried the story, found that nearly 80% of respondents either thought the forced prison tour was "just for show" or would be ineffective in preventing the officials from illegally profiting from their positions. That is a distressing prospect for Communist Party Cadres, who remain keenly aware that rampant corruption was one of the prime motivating factors behind the huge 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations that were finally suppressed by the military at a cost of hundreds of lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scaring the Chinese Straight on Corruption | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

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