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...gold. Anti-conflict campaigns aren't aimed at just diamonds and gold. Oil firms have long been targeted for their role in stoking conflict, while more recently activists have highlighted the exploitation of coltan, a rare mineral used in cell phones. The next targets? Fish and water, says Alex Yearsley, a campaigner with London-based NGO Global Witness. Yearsley, who joined a panel to discuss the role of business in conflict at the World Economic Forum's Africa Economic Summit in Cape Town last week, says that "predatory looting of Africa's ocean assets" could destabilize already fragile societies. Tanzanian...
...eclipse of their anti-slavery writings is hard to understand, especially because some, such as Wordsworth and Coleridge, wrote against slavery from their college days to the end of their lives. More than 40 women poets turn up, ranging from Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire, to Anne Yearsley the milkmaid poet and other servant girls on both sides of the Atlantic. They give voice to powerful feminine perspectives on a topic that might have been seen as suitable only for the governing male elite. And they touch on themes - interracial romance, sexual violence, children - that deepen the pathos within...
...great game on every level and you can play it for many, many years," Yearsley said. "Besides," he added, "you get to meet girls...
Berths in the national tourney are by invitation only, a system Yearsley terms "very political." Harvard team members expressed optimism about their chances to make this year's play-downs...
...practice there [the courtyard] a lot," Yearsley said. "In fact, we even have a tradition of playing in the courtyard on New Year's Day. We come back from break a day early just to play...