Global poverty. “The United Nations says it needs $5bn to help the world's poor this year, warning that the need for aid has never been greater.”
Pakistan. “Two major military offensives in recent years failed to rub them out. And now, as Pakistani generals brace again for war in South Waziristan, the Taliban militants there are tougher and greater in number than their brethren on the run from the military in the country's volatile Swat Valley.”
F-22 stopped. “The Senate voted Tuesday to kill the nation's premier fighter-jet program, embracing by a 58 to 40 margin the argument of President Obama and his top military advisers that more F-22s are not needed for the nation's defense and would be a costly drag on the Pentagon's budget in an era of small wars.”
Quote of the day. "There are one million black men in jail in this country, and last Thursday I was one of them. This is outrageous. … This is how poor black men across the country are treated every day in the criminal justice system. It's one thing to write about it, but altogether another to experience it." Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates on his arrest by Cambridge, MA, police. (USA Today, from Washington Post)
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