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Although the media has revealed questionable practices of intelligence services over the past few months, there are more effective methods of raising awareness than those employed by students at the panel. The disdain for intellectual and political freedom being exhibited before the panel stood in stark contrast to the protest be carried out in good taste right outside the Science Center doors. The so-called progressive student disrupters should attempt to engage in a more intellectually rigorous manner instead of staging farcical skits and rude cell-phone ringing orchestration. That students chose to rudely belittle the guest panelists...
Against that stark backdrop, representatives of 49 nations gathered in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa last week for the annual meeting of the Organization of African Unity. Delegates noted at the outset that an estimated 150 million Africans in 36 countries suffer from food shortages and for once, the O.A.U. leaders subordinated political differences to concentrate on solving their common problem. The group resolved to "get to the root of Africa's food and agricultural crisis" by developing crash and long-range programs. Sudan's leader, General Abdul Rahman Suwar al Dahab, told the group that Western emergency relief...
...percent of all survivors know their attackers. So then why don’t we hear their voices or see their faces? Sexual violence is vastly underreported; the same study indicated that over 84 percent of survivors do not report their attacks to the police. The stark reality is that statistically this is a cause that impacts someone you know...
...Stark white plumes from jet liners streaked across yesterday’s dazzling sky and breezy warmth drifted from the Charles River...
Impossibly retro-looking contraptions with names like “Launch Box” and “Technitron” line stark white walls separated by utility shelves and black curtains. The studio’s long central table is strewn with crayons and markers and covered in white paper, closer examination of which reveals sketches of cartoon characters, haphazard swirls and scribbles, even notes written back and forth between students...