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...bill's supporters say it would not establish a national ID card, since no one has to get a driver's license or state ID. That's correct. Such documents are useful only if you need to drive, fly, cash checks, apply for certain jobs or enter federal buildings. If you are a wealthy recluse with liquid assets, it doesn't concern...
...solution is a simple one. Instead of establishing a precedent of swiping for a single cause, students should be given a choice at the end of the year about the humanitarian destination of their surplus Crimson Cash. University Hall would establish a process whereby student activist groups (like the Darfur Action Group) could petition for their causes being included on the menu of options that would be available to students. The College administration would have to establish its own criteria for eligibility, but the process would make swipe-card based fundraising available to more groups than just those that have...
...United Nations cannot: take sides, take casualties, deploy overwhelming force and fire pre-emptively.” In Sudan, they would come in, protect the civilians from the Janjaweed and the Sudanese army, and remain until the international community asked them to leave. In the meanwhile they would establish a peace, which could actually be kept by peace-keepers. Call it outsourcing...
...think this impossible, take a look at Sierra Leone in 1995. With rebels 20 miles away from the capital, Freetown, and with the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity unable to help, the Government of Sierra Leone hired Executive Outcomes, a South African mercenary army, to establish peace in return for $15 million and access to some diamond mines. With 200 soldiers and a helicopter gunship, Executive Outcomes managed to quell the rebels and restore order. Three hundred thousand refugees returned home, and within a year, Sierra Leone had its first presidential election in 28 years. The soldiers...
...France, Van Peebles would learn of an obscure law that permitted French writers to be issued temporary director’s cards. To that end, he set out to establish himself as a French man of letters: he found work as a journalist for French language publications and authored five novels in his adopted tongue. “La Permission,” a novel of an African-American soldier stationed near Paris, became the basis of “Three-Day Pass...