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...effect is in Darfur, where the U.N. has agreed to deploy 26,000 peacekeepers to end genocide. It is a mission that, if fully staffed, would supercede that in the D.R.C. as the biggest in the world. "The concept is focused on mass atrocity crimes," says Gareth Evans, who heads global-conflict watchdog the International Crisis Group and who launched a book, Responsibility to Protect, in Washington on Tuesday. "The whole point is to develop an international reflex response that goes, 'Of course we have to do something. Let's figure out what...
...Guanténamo Bay prisoner doll at Disneyland, depicted England's Queen Elizabeth II as a chimpanzee, tagged the West Bank border fence and sneaked his own Mona Lisa - her inscrutable expression replaced by a yellow smiley face - into the Louvre. "He's kind of captured the zeitgeist," says Gareth Williams, a contemporary-art specialist at Bonhams auction house in London. "But he's done it in quite an accessible way, so it speaks to people." Even for a vandal, going mainstream has its perks: Banksy's handiwork has commanded millions of dollars at auction from acolytes like Brad Pitt...
...goal, the Crimson will have to recapture the stellar chemistry it had this year and fill the gaps at the top of its lineup left by the graduation of Ashwin Kumar and co-captain Dan Nguyen, while making up for the experience and intensity lost with the graduation of Gareth Doran and Kieran Burke. The team will have to find a way to inject some energy into its doubles lineup, which often struggled at all postions except No. 1, where the No. 34 duo of Kumar and junior Sasha Ermakov won seven straight matches to guide the Crimson...
...founded by the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes but named after the family on whose South African farm the Kimberley mine was discovered) was a secretive near monopoly that extracted or bought 70% of the world's diamond supply in order to keep prices artificially high. Under the leadership of Gareth Penny, who joined the board in 2002 and became managing director in 2006, the group sold off its entire diamond stock and now sells only diamonds it mines itself (40% of global output). Gone too is the secrecy: De Beers now has a small army of public relations experts keen...
...identical score at third doubles. The afternoon was also an opportunity for the team’s seniors to be honored and play in front of a home crowd one last time. With both teams standing at attention, Fish addressed the crowd and thanked Kumar, Nguyen, and Gareth Doran for their careers and contributions at Harvard. The seniors, and the entire team, will be hoping to carry their recent successes into the national tournament, to be held in early May. “We don’t stop here,” Fish said. —Staff writer...