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Hearing on governor's redistricting map ends
Sun StaffEnding three days of testimony, critics and defenders of the governor's legislative redistricting plan gave closing arguments yesterday in about a dozen lawsuits calling for the map to be redrawn because of claims that it hurts minority representation and...Tags: Elections, Baltimore County, Patapsco, Judges, Executive Branch
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While Darfur boils, Sudan's forgotten yearn to go home
Sun StaffOMDURMAN ES SALAAM, Sudan - Peter Maeike's house is a patchwork of sugar sacks, plastic sheeting and cardboard stretched over a pole frame, so fragile that a strong breeze might lift it into the air. It would not look out of place in Sudan's western...Tags: Farms, Children, John Murphy, Sudan, Islam
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Apartheid failed to demolish memories
Sun Foreign StaffCAPE TOWN, South Africa - Walking past the food delivery bays at a Cape Town technical college, Noor Ebrahim stopped abruptly and pointed to the pavement like a man discovering lost treasure. This, he said, was the spot where his family's home once stood....Tags: Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Bars and Clubs, John Murphy, Immigration, South Africa
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Surviving on one dollar a day
Sun Foreign StaffDAROU SALAM DIOUF, Senegal - The tiny bundle of currency - one 500-franc Central African note folded carefully around two 100-franc coins -- equals about $1.40. But Khady Mbaye clutches it in her right hand with seemingly all her might, as if she were...Tags: Farms, Poverty, Water Restrictions, John Murphy, United Nations
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Powerful symbol, weak in facts
Sun Foreign StaffGOREE ISLAND, Senegal - Standing in a narrow doorway opening onto the Atlantic Ocean, tour guide Aladji Ndiaye asked a visitor to this Senegalese island's Slave House to imagine the millions of shackled Africans who stepped through it, forced onto...Tags: Bill Clinton, Slavery, John Murphy, United Nations, Monuments and Heritage Sites
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'Post-struggle generation'
Sun Foreign StaffSOWETO, South Africa - In Mosa Makhubedu's home, voting is not just a right or a privilege, it's an emotional event. His 72-year-old mother, Rose, still vividly recalls South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994 as a day she had waited for from...Tags: Voting, Democracy, Elections, John Murphy, Gaming
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Many fear Mandela mania is too much of a good thing
Sun Foreign StaffJOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- On a recent sunny afternoon, several hundred South African celebrities, business leaders and other guests raised flutes of champagne to celebrate the unveiling of a 20-foot-high bronze statue of Nelson Mandela at one of...Tags: Finance, Hospitals and Clinics, AIDS, Johannesburg (South Africa), John Murphy
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S. Africa's new goal: economic equality
Sun Foreign StaffJOHANNESBURG, South Africa - When Peter-Paul Ngwenya, executive chairman of Makana Investment Corp. decided to buy a new car last month, he paid cash for a BMW 5-Series and had the dealer deliver the gleaming automobile to the front door of his spacious...Tags: Finance, Employment, Johannesburg (South Africa), John Murphy, Joint Ventures
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Reform in a country of cons
Sun Foreign StaffABUJA, Nigeria - "GREETINGS: IN ORDER TO TRANSFER OUT (USD 36MILLION DOLLARS) FROM OUR BANK. I HAVE THE COURAGE TO ASK YOU TO LOOK FOR A RELIABLE AND HONEST PERSON WHO WILL BE CAPABLE FOR THIS IMPORTANT BUSINESS BELIEVING THAT YOU WILL NEVER LET ME DOWN...Tags: Political Corruption, John Murphy, Bribery, Banking, Nigeria
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In Botswana, border turns electric
Sun Foreign StaffMATSILOJE, Botswana - Residents of this village along the border with Zimbabwe were quite pleased when Botswana's government began erecting a 10-foot-high electrified fence to separate the two countries. Officially, the fence is to keep out livestock...Tags: Labor Legislation, John Murphy, Immigration, Botswana, Sex Crimes
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Distrust of U.S. foils effort to stop crippling disease
Sun Foreign StaffFANISAU, Nigeria - If it were possible to wind back the centuries, Halima Umar's village would probably look much as it does today. Umar and her neighbors fetch water by lowering a bucket into a hand-dug well, toil in fields of millet and guinea corn, and...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Children, Employees, Tuberculosis, John Murphy
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Swelling suburbs, growing diversity
Sun StaffMaryland became a bigger, more suburban and more racially diverse state during the 1990s. The first detailed returns from the 2000 census show that the flight of white and black families from the largest cities continued, draining Baltimore and...Tags: African Americans, Baltimore County, Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Immigration, Swelling
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