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...dogs were welcomed into the fold.In the height of the battle, Adams awoke one morning to find itself plastered in Magritte-inspired signs—a picture of a wrap sliced in two, arranged like a pipe, with “Ceci n’est pas un sandwich,” scrawled below. Thank you, anonymous artist, for giving me the perfect response to, “So, what’s Harvard really like?”“O RLY” was the liberals’ appropriate, if snarky, reply. Over the next two weeks...
...change has brought immediate benefits. He works late and without a bodyguard. When the militias held sway, he employed security and had to shut up shop at 4 p.m. "If I had stayed later, they would have come to kill me," he says. The militias declared that shaving was un-Muslim, but some gangs were simply running protection rackets, says Abdalhadi. In 2007, his friend and colleague Shareef was tortured and murdered with a drill, but Abdalhadi continued to ply his trade. "I'm the breadwinner. Who would feed my family?" he asks...
...This is especially important because of UN negligence in the region; the humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières has accused the UN of “ignoring” violence currently committed in the northeast of the Congo. Moreover, the UN has limited resources and cannot devote all its attention to Africa...
...Africa’s other leaders may not fancy Gaddafi a higher African ruler to whom they should relinquish autonomy. His vision, however, could not be timelier. Africa has simply too many crises and areas of attention for the UN and current AU apparatus to cover. For those who envision an African community capable of handling its own problems and promoting peace, Gaddafi may prove the champion of such a dream...
...question, however, is about more than instrumental policy matters. It touches on the very shape of our reproductive health policy. The UN has committed itself to avoiding the use of abortion as birth control. Obama’s sudden shift in policy means that the United States will not follow suit. While it was in effect, the Mexico City Policy helped to shift the global family planning debate away from abortion and toward education and prevention. Various forms of prophylactic birth control—from the rhythm method to chemical contraceptives—are cheaper and safer, and they pose...