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In recent weeks, a variety of groups have come out in protest, from truckers to small business owners. The largest was a crowd of 10,000 demonstrating against the Kiev city council's handling of the financial crisis, which has pushed the mayor to propose novel ways of filling the...
In response to a parent's question on the subject, Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris said that due to budgetary constraints, the University may only offer housing to special groups, such as athletes in season or international students.
Fighting in Darfur began in 2003 and an estimated 300,000 people have died since then. In addition, some 2.7 million have fled their homes, and about 2 million are almost entirely dependent on aid groups to survive. (See pictures of being under death's shadow in Darfur.)
Some groups, including the World Food Program and Catholic Relief Services, were allowed to continue operating. Still, several of the organizations were the only ones providing their particular services - MSF and the IRC, for example, were the sole providers of medical services in the Kalma, and their clinics will either...
Those that remain will find their work seriously hampered. The World Food Programme relies on four of the affected aid groups- Action Against Hunger, CARE, Save the Children U.S. and Solidarites- to distribute its food. "WFP and other humanitarian agencies simply don't have the capacity to take over their...