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  • World of Hunger

    Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger Tyler Hicks/The New York Times In a garbage dump in Port-au-Prince, people recently scavenged for food. More Photos > E-MAIL PRINT REPRINTS SAVE SHARE By MARC LACEY Published: April 18, 2008 Correction Appended PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Hunger bashed in the front gate of Haiti’s presidential palace. Hunger poured…

  • Sotomayor, En Banc and Closed Circuit

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  • Tortured Answers

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  • BREAKING THE CHAINS

    By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Sunday, April 3, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—Against a backdrop of hope and fear, a nation’s epic march toward democracy has entered a bloody home stretch. The people of South Africa—including, for the first time, the majority black population—will go to the polls later this month…

  • TAKE NOTE, AMERICANS_Lessons from Across the Sea

    By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Sunday, April 3, 1994 Saraan Ajaye did not even know South Africa was a country until she took a human rights course a year ago. Ajaye, a senior at the Bronx alternative high school Schomburg Satelite Academy, now sees the country’s gallop to democracy after three…

  • UNEASY CALM IN EYE OF S. AFRICA STORM

    By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Sunday, April 3, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—The epicenter of the violence that rattled this city last week remained a place of frayed nerves and bullet-riddled glass yesterday. Outside the headquarters of the African National Congress Party, a security guard quickly confronted two visitors who stepped…

  • CAULDRON OF CHANGE

    Text: MICHAEL O. ALLEN; Maps & Design: JIM WILLIS | Sunday, April 3, 1994 HISTORY’S LESSONS South Africa, as it enters a world made uncertain by the end of apartheid, should look to the post-independence experiences of Namibia and Zimbabwe. The same fears being raised today about South Africa’s stumble to democracy were raised in…

  • Elizabeth Edwards’ Lies

    Roger Simon of the Politico asks some pertinent questions of Elizabeth Edwards. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin

  • A tilt

    A friend of mine, Martin, sent me an e-mail with three pictures attached. I have not asked his permission to post this but this is the subject line of his e-mail: “Three pictures one of slang, the other of a little box, and the message from Obama to his people, apparently the world, not the…

  • MANDELA—BORN TO RULE

    By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Sunday, April 3, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—He carries himself like he was born to power—and he was, 75 years ago, in a hut at the bottom of the African continent. His family ran the village; a cousin, with whom he lived while a teen, was…