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...Category 2 hurricane, to wreak so much havoc. While Akinfenwa said that his family boarded up the windows for Hurricane Rita in September of 2005, they did not do so for Ike. In preparation, Kodama’s family had only bought food for a few days. Tough times remain ahead for Houston. Kodama and other Houston residents are waiting for the power and water to return, and authorities have imposed a 9 p.m. curfew on the city to ensure safety. Meanwhile in Cambridge, students said they are making sure to stay in touch with loved ones. Akinfenwa calls home...
Weeks after the violence surrounding the presidential election in Zimbabwe has subsided, Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe have finally reached a power-sharing agreement. In this arrangement, Tsvangirai becomes prime minister and chairman of the council of ministers, while Mugabe remains president, chairman of the cabinet, and leader of the armed forces. Despite this political solution, economic troubles remain. In order to solve them, the United States, though perhaps wary of the uncertainty of this political union, must act decisively by supporting foreign aid negotiations...
...United States, however, shares none of these political constraints. Even though it is closely connected with Great Britain, a country whose connections to Zimbabwe remain strong, the United States never occupied Zimbabwe. Furthermore, since the United States relies less on trade with Africa than several other capable powers, such as China, the United States can approach negotiations to allow foreign aid as a neutral party interested on behalf of humanity...
...administer it. Many high-school students (and parents) dream of a Harvard education, and quite a few try to get a leg up by attending an elite private high school. If, however, they knew that a public-school education would offer a better opportunity, they would be likelier to remain engaged in the state system. A simple word from Harvard and similar institutions could enact such a reversal of fortunes...
...become Kadima leader because "she was someone clean who believed in fair play." Livni, he says, is likely to pursue the U.S.-sponsored peace talks with the Palestinians. In interviews, Livni says she believes in a two-state solution with the Palestinians as the only way for Israel to remain a Jewish and democratic state. Yet she will face the same lack of support for the peace process among her hawkish coalition partners, and Kadima Party members, that thwarted Olmert...