Word: roberts
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...Robert Segal, CHICAGO...
...risk" on account of global warming. Many of Africa's armed conflicts can be explained as tinderboxes of climate change lit by the spark of ancient rivalry. In Somalia, nearly two decades of anarchy have been exacerbated by eight years of drought. In Zimbabwe, relief agencies say President Robert Mugabe's disastrous rule is being overtaken by an even greater catastrophe, a three-month drought that wiped out the maize crop, fueling tensions between government-allied haves and opposition have-nots. Apart from drought, other environmental challenges can prove deadly. A growing number of experts believe the 1994 genocide...
...moderate Democrats who had been initially inclined to soft-pedal their support for gun control might find it in their interest to defend the principle more forcefully. "Conceivably, the Supreme Court in Parker could do for gun-control advocates what Roe v. Wade did for pro-life advocates," says Robert J. Spitzer, political scientist at SUNY Cortland and author of The Politics of Gun Control. "It could be a catalyzing event." Both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates would have to reassure the political center that they supported modest forms of gun control, but Democrats would be freer to defy...
...Europeans take for granted? Having been born in Zambia, I know. I am disgusted by the fact that your readers can so easily ponder tossing aside the E.U. just because they sit every Saturday morning in their comfortable armchairs and read Time without having to worry about anything. Jack Robert Rose, SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND...
...arrangement collapsed, Toufeili says, when, just three days after securing the promise from the kidnappers, Robert McFarlane, the former National Security Advisor to President Reagan, made his now infamous secret trip to Tehran, accompanied by Colonel Oliver North, as part of the arms-for-hostages dealings...