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Change the World Bank needs
Few people on the street may be familiar with the World Bank. Yet, it plays a critical role in the U.S. effort to engage the world through its contribution to economic development in poor and post-conflict societies. As current World Bank President...Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Teachers, Robert Zoellick, Newspaper and Magazine, Morgan State University
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In Nigeria, getting away with murder
Since the arrival of the New Year, America's Nigerian diaspora, including its significant community in Maryland, must be dismayed by the news from Africa's most populous country. The reluctance ofNigeria'sgovernment to prevent or punish violence between...Tags: Islam, Murder, Prosecution, Freedom of Religion, Civil Rights
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Peace Corps volunteers recall work that changed their world
At a time in their lives when young people feel the pressure of "what's next?" Larry Shirley, of Towson, and Barbara Cook, of Cockeysville, enlisted in the Peace Corps.
That decision changed the course of their lives. The same could probably be said...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Colleges and Universities, Arts, Towson University, Barbara Cook
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Pontiff's unprecedented attention won loyalty of many congregants
Sun Foreign StaffSOWETO, South Africa - At yesterday's generally somber Mass, hymn-singing members of the Regina Mundi Catholic Church choir danced a stutter-step down the aisle as congregants slapped hymnbooks to the beat. Just outside the cavernous sanctuary, cars on a...Tags: Islam, Congo, AIDS, Colleges and Universities, Civil Rights
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The challenges that lie ahead
Sun StaffThe next pope will inherit a church facing serious challenges, such as the polarization between liberals and conservatives, competition with evangelical Protestants, the secularization of Western Europe and the clergy's steadily declining ranks. The...Tags: Benedict XVI, Arts, Church and State Relations, Sexual Assault, The Pope
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Foreign tourism offices
For tourist information on selected foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at 212-963-1234, dial 0 and ask for the number of the country's U.N. mission or delegation....Tags: Poland, Netherlands, Madagascar, United Nations, Germany
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Iraq's oil a dubious balm for ailments
Sun National StaffWith United Nations sanctions lifted, Iraq is poised to resume exporting crude by mid-June and start using its oil wealth - it has the world's second-largest reserves - to bankroll an equitable, democratic society. Or so American policy-makers hope....Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Iraq, Political Corruption, Medical Services, Colin Powell
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Investigation launched in inmate death
Sun StaffMaryland prison authorities are investigating the death of a 51-year-old inmate from the Western Correctional Institution in Allegany County who was found motionless in his cell April 30, a prison spokesman said yesterday. Ifeanyi A. Iko, an immigrant...Tags: Somerset County (Maryland), Hospitals and Clinics, Family, Medical Research, Punishment
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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: Police Arrests, Lawyers, Political Corruption, Interior Policy, John Murphy
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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, AIDS, Iraq, Pharmaceuticals, India
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Rights groups slam death-by-stoning sentence for Sudanese woman
World NowRights groups slam death sentence by stoning for young Sudanese woman: A young Sudanese woman, Intisar Sharif Abdallah, has been sentenced to death by stoning after being convicted of adultery by a Sudanese court, according to rights groups, provoking... -
Kidnapped Italian in Nigeria freed-Italy foreign ministry
ReutersROME (Reuters) - An Italian engineer who was abducted by a group of armed men in the Kwara state in western Nigeria was released on Friday, a spokesman for Italy's Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi said. Details on his release were not immediately available,...Tags: Kidnapping, Rome (Italy), Italy
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