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...reports on the country's starving children. Niger's President, Mamadou Tandja, has been unwilling to acknowledge the full scope of the crisis, saying that "the people of Niger look well fed, as you can see." Some aid experts blame International Monetary Fund prescriptions, like the suggestion that Niger scrap its emergency food stockpile...
Then came His Honor's delayed pronouncement upon Darrow's motion to quash. Mr. Stewart had apologized to Mr. Hays and the courtroom tension had lowered, but when Defense-Counsel Malone heard the quasher denied he rightly forecast: "This is going to be a scrap from now on; a knock-down and drag...
...Roger," Husband responded. "Uh ..." All at once, communications were cut off as if by a knife, and with them went every other scrap of data coming down from the ship...
...officials felt no small amount of relief last week at the reception that John Roberts received when he made his trip into the liberal lion's den. Roberts emerged from Kennedy's office with his hide intact--and a map of Ireland. Sure enough, Kennedy had been assembling every scrap of information he could get about Roberts and had discovered that the ancestral home of Roberts' wife is a mere 10 miles from that of Kennedy's mother in Limerick...
...part of the country's Participating Police Force (PPF). Composed of officers from 11 Pacific nations, it's the law-and-order arm of the intervention force known as ramsi, the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands, that arrived two years ago to save a country heading for the scrap heap. Solomon Islanders were being killed and brutalized by rival militias, while a corrupt political and bureaucratic class, and a rogue Royal Solomon Islands Police (RSIP) force, either stoked the hate or failed to stop...