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...exile—came to a tragic end in January, when the former Prime Minister was assassinated on campaign in Rawalpindi. The media attention that swirled around Bhutto’s murder only contributed to the chaos, casting her as a Western light swallowed by a dark, anarchic world??in deliberate defiance of the former minister’s unresolved record of corruption and Western responsibility for some of the turmoil...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Into an Uncertain Future | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...Finally, in Africa, the colonial invasion has long receded, yet its comprehensive effects persist clear as day. Last November, PetroChina became the world??s largest corporation, profiting all the while from the murderous state of affairs in the Sudan, where Khartoum-sponsored mass murder persists in Darfur. Meanwhile, UBS, the Swiss financial services giant, facilitated PetroChina’s rise by hosting its Shanghai IPO—without considering the bargaining power it held to enact change in one of the world??s most neglected, most devastated quadrants. Mere greed seems to have...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Into an Uncertain Future | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...insisted she was “awful” at first, Buttner quickly became a motorcycle aficionado, riding across the country on back roads in 1993. A year later, in another calculated risk, Buttner took a break from television to become the first female editor of motorcycle magazine, Cycle World??a move that surprised even those who knew her best...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brenda Buttner | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...MESSAGE FOR THE WORLD?...

Author: By Nini S. Moorhead, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Karim Aga Khan | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...expected to rise by 54 percent in the next two decades. Undoubtedly, a large proportion of this rise in demand may be attributed to the rise of China and India; an estimated 61 percent of the expected rise in carbon dioxide emissions will be due to the developing world??s reliance on coal and fossil fuels. In fact, air pollution is even worse in developing Asia than it is in the United States. A brief walk through the streets of smog-ridden Bangalore can leave a healthy individual coughing within a matter of minutes; in fact, many...

Author: By Shankar G. Ramaswamy | Title: The Real Inconvenient Truth | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

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