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...raised its voice on Darfur and Burma louder than any other country. George W. Bush has regularly denounced the Sudanese campaign of destruction as "genocide," Washington has spent $2.5billion on humanitarian aid to keep Darfur's refugees alive, and the Administration has spearheaded creation of a 26,000-person, U.N.-led peacekeeping force. When the Burmese regime cracked down on protesters, it was Bush who used his appearance before the U.N. General Assembly to announce that the U.S. would freeze the assets of Burma's repressive leaders and deny them visas. Yet when he urged "every civilized nation...
Barack Obama is in the midst of a "40 Days of Faith and Family" campaign in South Carolina after completing a "faith tour" of Iowa. Obama spent a recent Sunday at a Greenville megachurch telling the story of how "I accepted Jesus Christ in my life." The sweeping effort could help Obama among the Palmetto State's black citizens, who make up half the Democratic vote in the state's early primary and are overwhelmingly religious. But his targeting of white Evangelicals suggests Obama is casting a wider net. If he deprives Clinton of the nomination (a huge...
...learn that just yesterday, a group of protesters walked past the crumbling lakeside home of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, who has spent 12 of the past 18 years under house arrest. Standing behind barricades manned by riot police, Suu Kyi prayed with the crowd for 15 minutes before tearfully urging them to march...
...have a sense that the junta's victory may yet prove Pyrrhic. The brutal crackdown has shattered the relationship between the generals and the monks. The regime spent years building new pagodas and donating alms to cultivate its image as protector of the faith. It can hardly claim that role now. The assault on a revered institution may yet cause divisions in the army's ranks. "Soldiers are humans," says a Burmese analyst with close ties to the military. "They have families. They have monks among their relatives." Already stories are being told of monks damning to hell the soldiers...
...illegal gambling to that of a valuable educational tool. “Poker teaches cognitive ability in a way we just don’t have in education now,” Woods said yesterday afternoon. While the group is not allowed to gamble during meetings, they spent their first meeting on Tuesday night discussing some of the finer points of the card game. “Anybody that somehow thinks interest in poker is a bad thing would be convinced just by seeing and listening to these kids talk,” said Nesson. Woods said that the GPSTS...