Word: sudan
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When valentino was young, soldiers burned his village in Sudan. Parentless, he walked hundreds of miles in search of safety. When he came to America as a young man, his problems started again. Don't read this novel--which is closely based on his life--for any reason other than it's a great document of hope, despair and the will to keep walking...
...countries on Harvard’s “travel warnings” list.Only 18 countries remain on the list of places that Harvard will not send students, down from 26 before the list was shortened in fall of last year. The current list also includes Iraq, Indonesia, and Sudan, and still largely overlaps with the countries currently with travel warnings by the U.S. State Department.Proud Dzambukira ’07, who helped organize a petition that factored into lifting restrictions on some countries, said that students should be given more freedom in deciding where to do research...
Hadfield, who is also a Crimson editorial editor, spearheaded “Swipe for Darfur,” which allowed undergraduates to redirect Crimson Cash money to support African Union peacekeepers in Sudan. He also launched crimsonreading.org, a Web site which helps students find cheap textbooks...
...floors of its Secretariat building in New York. After he became ambassador, however, colleagues accorded him grudging respect for his professionalism in helping to win unanimous Security Council resolutions on North Korea, and in fostering consensus on tough issues like Iran's nuclear program and the conflict in Sudan...
...talk of a humanitarian crisis is not true." OMAR AL-BASHIR, President of Sudan, rejecting a U.N.-backed peacekeeping mission in war-torn Darfur. Al-Bashir maintained that fewer than 9,000 people had been killed in the conflict, instead of the 200,000 reported by international media...