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wyqb UN rights chief suggests mission to assess possible war crimes in Gaza conflict
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Nkus 7,066 degrees and certificates awarded at Harvard s 366th Commencement
Tell me a story.That tender and urgent imperative appears to date to early in humankind. We are simply hardwired to stories, said Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction writer Tracy Kidder. People like to receive stories, and to tell them too. You can argue with a political question, added novelist and writing activist Erika Duncan, but you can t argue with a story. Kidder and Duncan, founder of the Herstory Writers W stanley quencher orkshop, pa stanley website rticipated in a panel discus stanley water flask sion Thursday on the uses of narrative and the deep human need for stories that amuse, surprise, instruct, and otherwise make temporary sense of a disorderly world. Tell Me a Story, sponsored by Harvard College Students for Scholars at Risk, drew a standing-room-only crowd to Lamont Library s Forum Room. The seven-member student group, co-chaired by emcee Madeline Holland 15 and by Edwin Whitman 15, adds undergraduate energy to Harvard s longtime Scholars at Risk chapter, which each year sponsors a brief refuge at the University f Xvxa One close game
With four out of five girls never even enrolled in school in north eastern Kenya and poor access to health services contributing to low immunization rates, high malaria incidence and high risk of maternal death, the head of the United Nations Children s Fund UNICEF has called for redoubled efforts to meet the daunting challenges. Right now, all the key indicators for children and women in North Eastern Province are unacceptable, UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman told stanley coffee cup an audience that included several leading government officials during a visit over the weekend to Wajir in North Eastern Province. The Millennium Development Goals MDGs are all about children, she stressed, referring to a set of eight targets drawn up at the UN Millennium Su stanley cup mmit five years ago to stanley cup slash a host of socio-economic ills by 2015, including halving extreme poverty and hunger, cutting child mortality rates by two-thirds, and achieving universal primary education and access to health
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