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...devoted his last three pieces to the issue—and an excellent op-ed in Tuesday’s New York Times by Harvard’s own Samantha Power, the Sudanese crisis has largely been ignored by the Western press. Our leaders have also remained silent. Unfortunately, this comes as little surprise. Compared with the latest dour dispatches from Iraq and the recent revelations in the post-9/11 drama, the troubles of some little known African nation hardly makes for big news...
...back and wait for the United States to take the lead. In the face of such egregious crimes against humanity, every country has a responsibility to speak out and to act according to its means; U.S. inaction is not an excuse. That African leaders and Muslims leaders have remained silent is especially unconscionable...
Instead of a loud national statement, the Crimson was left with a near-silent dressing room and very quiet bus ride home...
...does a coach who once reached a Super Bowl cope with public humiliation? Not by locking himself in his home. "You have to realize that the fans that get POed and scream don't come close in numbers to those that support you," he says. "There is a silent majority out there that respects how hard coaches work, even when teams are not performing...
...Americans in the first place as justified, a retaliation for last week's raids by Marines in which locals say some 18 Iraqis were killed. Prompted by U.S. commanders, the Muslim clerics of Fallujah used Friday prayers to denounce the desecration of the corpses, but they remained silent on the attacks themselves. Even more worrying, perhaps, was the response of the local Iraqi constabulary, to whom the U.S. is hoping to transfer responsibility for security in much of Iraq. They stayed away from the Wednesday's grotesquerie, with one explaining the decision thus: "Why should we interfere? It's none...