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...number of refugees is expected to rise as the political tumult continues in Kenya. Nairobi's slum Mathare could have passed for a war zone on Thursday. Ambulances roared through trash-littered streets, as hundreds of protestors faced off with police. Between makeshift roadblocks, residents dodged flying stones, tear gas and live bullets. "We are after peace, but only peace with solidarity!" shouted a young man armed with a machete. Behind him, the streets teemed with crowds of people and abandoned bullet-scarred shacks. But voicing the opinion of many violence-weary Kenyans, Pamela Atieno complained of the riots...
...Japan before being chosen to lead the Jesuits. Arrupe's reign was marked by progressive challenges to the Church establishment, including clashes with both Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II. Arrupe's reign, consistent with order's history of experiments with theology and philosophy, saw the rise of radical Jesuit participation in politics, from the anti-war movement in the U.S. in the 1960s to the liberation theology that swept Latin America. That kind of leftist activism was too much for the anti-Communist John Paul II. The Jesuits were eclipsed by the staunchly traditionalist Opus...
...course, if the economy does play such a key role we could be in for a spike, with unemployment already on the rise - 5% in December - and fears of a recession mounting. Some observers say its impact is already visible in some smaller cities and rural parts of the country, where violent crime has been on the uptick in recent years. Others say a more simple formula is behind it. "What goes up comes down," said James Alan Fox, a leading criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston. "But in big cities, there was more room to drop, and in small...
...True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s. "And if we don't know why crime fell so sharply throughout the country in the 1990s, and in certain big cities right up to the present, we won't know what policies to follow if crime rates start to rise again...
Princeton and Virginia saw their applicant pools rise by six and four percent, respectively. Other top schools have also seen major jumps in applicants, with the University of Chicago and Amherst College recording 18 percent and 17 percent increases...