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...most recent alarm sounded at 5 p.m. Saturday when a coffee pot left on the stove in a first floor dorm room caught fire. Four fire trucks arrived and students were evacuated, according to observers...
Almost as varied as Bartley's ultra-diversified menu is its clientele. "I get all types--students, businessmen, older people," says Joe Bartley. "We get the melting pot, that's what's fascinating about...
Dawn. As the red sun edges over the horizon, a crowd of frail bodies gathers in the chill morning air outside the UNICEF feeding center in Bardera, a small town in southern Somalia. Each person clutches an aluminum pot or gourd to be filled, they hope, with a meal of brown gruel before the day is over. For four weeks now they have been been arriving at the rate of 150 to 200 a day from villages as far as 125 miles away, camping overnight in abandoned huts and making their way to the center in the predawn hours through...
That rejoinder was not only frivolous but shallow. After the early '60s, one reason why the U.N. was unable to intervene in African and Asian bloodbaths was the sanctity-of-boundaries standard that Third World members held dear. Idi Amin's Uganda, Pol Pot's Cambodia and other killing fields piled up bones unchecked in large part because the carnage was performed within sovereign borders. Many developing countries were disturbed by these atrocities, but they remained loath to compromise the U.N. Charter's criterion for use of outside force; the days of "intervention" by Western colonial empires were too recent...
...BOTTOM LINE: A postmodern pot unexpectedly boils over...