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Before the idiot box was idiotic and the boob tube gained its, well, boob, there was truth on television. The vast wasteland was sprinkled with islands of worth: news programs, those last bastions of truth in a swirling sea of superficiality, were always there to inform, frankly and objectively. Americans could sleep peacefully knowing that the Rather-Brokaw-Jennings triumvirate could always be counted on to emerge from the evening twilight, ready to tell an anxious nation how to think and what to believe...
Jack shows up and I tipsily berate him for leaving me alone in this wasteland of dirty warehouses. (Lucky the Peterborough kid was there.) Jack’s writing for an upstart magazine. I’m there under the pretense of writing for someone or something. I have no plan to do so. I just wanted the ticket...
...referendum on whether to secede. "Africa begins the year 2005 on a very good footing," said South African President Thabo Mbeki, who helped close the deal. "Let's party!" But few believe this will end Sudan's problems. Two decades of fighting have turned southern Sudan into a wasteland, yet nearly a third of the 3.5 million people displaced by the war are expected to return there this year. The deal doesn't address the conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan, which some have called genocide. "Unless Congress sees movement on Darfur, and fast, they're not going...
...long-heralded HCCR will simply replace one meaningless slogan (“ways of knowing”) with another one, such as “essential facts.” We worry that the College is in danger of shallowly slapping a new name on the barren intellectual wasteland that sits in the first section of the course catalog. Real reform is within reach, but to succeed, the Committee must present a coherent, principled vision for the purpose of a general education requirement. Otherwise, the College is far better off implementing a simple distribution requirement...
...refugee camp that operated on the outskirts of Tawila, less than 50 of the town's 515 families remain. Dead cattle, their teeth bared in final agony, litter the camp, and residents scrounge the looted food depots for spilled flour and grain or forage the wasteland for something to eat. "We will have to stay because we don't have the money to go anywhere else," says Babakir Abdullah Abdurahim, a displaced man. "We are very hungry. Tell them to bring us food," he pleads...