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...that Congo needs a great deal of international support to hold elections, develop infrastructure and put an end to the insecurity in the east. But real progress will occur only when all of Congo's leaders and citizens decide to make things better for themselves. If there is one lesson we can learn from Africa's history, it is that the best solutions to the continent's problems almost always come from within. Laura Seay Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo...
...lesson that most impressed itself on Roosevelt was that it had taken the Oregon, steaming at high speed, a full 67 days to complete the 14,700-mile journey around Cape Horn. American navalists and expansionists--and Roosevelt was both--began clamoring for the construction of a canal across Central America, one that, given the turbulent nature of international politics, must be completely under U.S. control. Facing large potential threats in the Atlantic and the Pacific, the U.S. had no choice but to shorten the route between the East and West coasts...
When men and women are sent into unjustifiable wars, when soldiers see their buddies get blown to pieces for no good reason, when there is a vacuum in moral leadership, then decent people become capable of horrific acts. We thought we learned this painful lesson in Vietnam, but we are sadly revisiting it. The few bad eggs are not the brave men and women in the combat zones of Iraq but the cowardly men and women occupying the White House...
...selection of sketches from a kids? TV show, I felt like a scientist monitoring extraterrestrial signals. What do they mean to the people they?re made for? And is anyone, anywhere, laughing? I think I understand the premise of the sketch about the high-school girl at a tennis lesson who gets a bloodsucker stuck to her arm. It gradually emerges, and we see it?s a small homunculus named Yamada (as in "Ya mada?s so ugly, she looks like a bloodsucker"). But the bit about a girl asked by a guy in a yellow fur suit to pull...
...that Congo needs a great deal of international support to hold elections, develop infrastructure and put an end to the insecurity in the east. But real progress will occur only when all of Congo's leaders and citizens decide to make things better for themselves. If there is one lesson we can learn from Africa's history, it is that the best solutions to the continent's problems almost always come from within. Laura Seay Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo As a postgraduate student of international politics, I have been dismayed by the lack of interest in the human tragedy...