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Over the last month, Kenya was gripped by the kind of fever usually seen only when a Mega Millions lottery jackpot creeps past the $100 million range. In the aftermath of the country's violent political spasm, the mania was perceived as a sure bet on prosperity: the initial public offering of East Africa's most profitable company, the mobile phone service provider Safaricom...
...trafficking, with an estimated $47 billion in annual revenue. But the toll has been heavy. The "Massacre of Ferragosto" - the gangland killing last Aug. 15 in Duisburg, Germany, of six young men from in and around San Luca - was the first major 'Ndrangheta killing to occur on foreign soil. Violent death is more common in Calabria, where three people were killed in a five-day period in late March near the town of Crotone...
...With this type of illiberal, even violent image of students in administrators’ minds, it is not surprising that University Hall acts like an absolute monarch, supposedly “saving” us students from our warring nature. Nor is it surprising that Harvard Law School Professor Harvey A. Silverglate titled his recent book on how colleges govern “The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America’s Campuses,” or that he called the Ad Board “outrageous” at a recent dinner with students, and said...
...college. I am not suggesting that Harvard should be managed completely by students’ desires and town halls. But on the spectrum of including students versus excluding us, respecting us versus patronizing us, University Hall is a long ways away from treating students like the reasonable, non-violent quasi-adults that...
...past, elections have primarily served as an opportunity for Mugabe to tighten his grip. Campaigns have been violent, their aftermaths more so. Few would discount the possibility that by allowing open opposition, Mugabe is merely drawing his opponents into the open. But even if the violence fails to materialize this year, Maroleng says the poll is a distraction from talks between the government and opposition, mediated by South Africa, aimed at restoring a more democratic political climate in Zimbabwe and strengthening its institutions. The election, says Maroleng, once again reduces the question of Zimbabwe's political future to the question...