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...does have a history of murderous infighting: in 2003, a former insurgent leader was gunned down in a Manila restaurant while eating lunch. But international and Philippine human-rights watchdogs allege that the military itself is responsible for many of the deaths and disappearances. According to Ruth Cervantes, a spokeswoman for Karapatan, the violence peaked in 2006, at the height of a new government offensive against the NPA. In a scathing 2007 report, Philip Alston, a special rapporteur for the U.N., wrote that the country's military "is in a state of denial concerning the numerous extrajudicial executions in which...
...spent in developing countries to buy produce from small farmers. But even farmers in poor countries are holding out for more money. Traders in Cambodia and Sri Lanka recently broke agreements to sell rice to the WFP because they "preferred to sell it where prices were higher," says WFP spokeswoman Brenda Barton...
...concentrator. “As far as economics goes, he’s about the most qualified person.” A 14-member subcommittee of the Senior Class Committee, in conjunction with members of the Harvard Alumni Association, selected Bernanke as the Class Day speaker, Tennant said. A spokeswoman from the Federal Reserve declined to comment regarding Bernanke’s visit, but noted that the text of his speech will be posted on the Fed’s Web site at 2:45 today. —Staff writer Maxwell L. Child can be reached at mchild@fas.harvard.edu...
Church officials have been evasive if not obstreperous in clarifying the precise timelines for the transition from Wright to Moss. Trinity's spokeswoman, Donna Hammond-Miller, responded to questions on the matter by e-mailing a reporter the church's already widely circulated response to the Obama family's departure. Pressed further on Sunday morning in between church services, Hammond-Miller said: "Those questions won't be answered at this time." When asked to help clarify points for the sake of accuracy, Hammond-Miller responded, "That's your problem, not mine." When queried by TIME again on Wednesday...
Officials at the United Church of Christ's national headquarters in Cleveland are aware of the leadership tension at Trinity. However, they say, individual U.C.C. churches are autonomous and the national body can do little to intervene. Barbara Powell, a U.C.C. headquarters spokeswoman, noted that "Trinity didn't follow the normal U.C.C. guidelines for the [pastoral] search" (Wright handpicked Moss, apparently without a formal search committee), but said it was hard to imagine that Moss wouldn't successfully complete the ordination process...