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...walled, straw-roofed village. Instead of giving the usual smiles and waves, the children ducked away. A few minutes later, we crested a rise in the road and were confronted by nine janjaweed horsemen, rifles over their shoulders, white turbans around their heads. We'd gone before they could react, but we were 100 miles from the Sudanese border inside Chad and their presence on a road in broad daylight showed how invulnerable they felt. Two hours later we were in Iriba, northeastern Chad's logistics base for six refugee camps for families from Darfur. Aid workers in Iriba told...
What exactly China will do in retaliation is unclear. Glaser and other China watchers do not expect a major backlash that would derail relations between Washington and Beijing. Glaser said Chinese leaders would likely react to the Uighurs' release in the U.S. as they did to the announcement in October by the Bush Administration of a $6.4 billion arms sale to the Taiwanese, a much more troublesome issue in the eyes of China's government. That deal prompted Beijing to curb, but not cut, military contacts with Washington and brush off some arms-proliferation talks. All in all, the Chinese...
UNIVERSITY The University of Pennsylvania and Yale University have been optimistic about their ability to maintain their operations in spite of the financial crisis. Both schools have cited prudent spending strategies that have buffered their operating budgets from short-term downturns, while saying that they will remain flexible and react to market conditions as they develop...
...avoid the fate of Lehman or Bear, the firm's board may feel like it needs to do something to boost it's stock price. One option would be to boot chief executive Vikram Pandit. Some on Wall Street believe Pandit has not been quick enough to react to the problems of the firm and could still be in denial. On Friday, Pandit told top executives that he doesn't believe Citi needs to sell off parts of its business to raise capital. Investors don't seem to agree. The stock fell on the news...
...Live Nude Girls”—showed sex workers in several different lights. After each clip, Khan, who is an assistant professor at the Department of Law at Carleton University in Ontario, Canada, encouraged the assembled undergraduates, alumni, and graduate students to react to the characters and their portrayals. The intimate discussion, so to speak, centered around the various issues and factors surrounding the sex industry, including class, sexual orientation, race, and gender. They also addressed agency and power struggles experienced by the sex workers and their clients both in film and in reality. Some attendees, such...