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...Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in the south has stripped the country virtually to the bone. When the fighting is going badly for its side, the government tries to starve the rebels into submission by cutting off food aid. The rebel fighters routinely take food from civilians to sustain themselves or block supplies from reaching the territory of their factional rivals. And the aid community stands accused of sheer pusillanimity, docilely submitting to the strictures of the Sudanese government rather than pushing through the assistance the country urgently needs. Even the U.S. government, pledged to prevent such needlessly recurring...
...turned, with a bang of Trent Lott?s gavel, into a lose-lose. And although Newt Gingrich is suddenly making noises about antitobacco in the House, you can bet that whatever emerges from the Republican leadership will be carefully crafted to give Clinton neither money nor plaudits enough to sustain the appearance of second-term activism that Clinton so desperately wants. "All he?s got left is the China trip," says Branegan. It doesn?t get any more no-win than that...
...time; he adapted the ancient art of puppetry to the most modern of mediums, television, transforming both; he created a TV show that was one of the most popular on earth. But Henson's greatest achievement was broader than any of these. Through his work, he helped sustain the qualities of fancifulness, warmth and consideration that have been so threatened by our coarse, cynical...
...since the committees on shareholderresponsibility generally stay out of largerquestions of investment, the full weight ofHarvard's moral significance falls on the proxyprocess, a weight which may be more than the proxyprocess can sustain...
Despite a strong start in the finals of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championship, the Harvard lightweight men's crew was unable to sustain its momentum, falling behind Princeton and Columbia in its pursuit of a second straight national title...