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...Taring Padi's prime mission is to campaign through art for wage hikes for workers, land rights for indigenous peoples and fairer deals for farmers. Since its establishment after the revolution that swept President Suharto from power in 1998, Taring Padi (the name means "Fangs of the Rice Plant") has produced thousands of banners and posters, mostly by hand. Until the group cobbled together enough money to buy a printing press recently, all works were etched into wood and covered with ink, then manually stamped onto cloth or paper...
...time for political settlement was yesterday.' CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. Secretary of State, on resolving the differences between rival parties in Kenya, where 1,000 have died in ethnic strife triggered by disputed elections...
...would also like to point out that just because the cost of food has increased, Harvard students have not become vegetarians across the board. On Feb. 16, 2008, the following was offered for dinner: vegetarian paella, baked potatoes, spaghetti, brown rice, carrots, gravy, sour cream, scallions, and shredded cheddar cheese. Was this a Great Depression themed dinner? What was the gravy...
...Notwithstanding the President's comments in Tanzania, the U.S. gives $1 billion a year in aid to a Kenyan government that ranks eighth from the bottom in Transparency International's world corruption tables. Bush has declined to visit Kenya, a key ally in Africa, sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to bolster mediation efforts by former U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan...
...With the State Department short-staffed and unprepared for operating in dangerous places like Iraq and Afghanistan, Pentagon officials have expressed frustration in recent years that the military has been forced to shoulder most of the load in post-conflict zones. To address this, Rice is proposing the creation of a Civilian Response Corps. Similar to the military reserves, the new program would comprise doctors, lawyers, engineers, agricultural experts, police officers and public administrators, led by a team of diplomats, that could deploy with a military unit with 48 hours notice. Senators Joseph Biden of Delaware and Richard Lugar...