What happened on October 27, 2005
OPINION
They profit while the hungry die Christopher B. Barrett and Daniel G. Maxwell, CHRISTOPHER B. BARRETT is a professor of applied economics and management and director of the African Food Security and Natural Resources Management Program at Cornell University. DANIEL G. MAXWELL is the deputy regional director, East and Central Africa, for CARE International. They are the coauthors of "Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting Its Role" (London: Routledge, 2005).
History almost passed her by David J. Garrow, DAVID J. GARROW, a senior fellow at Homerton College, Cambridge, is the author of "Bearing the Cross" (Quill, 1999), the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
Hating the regime, fearing Uncle Sam Matthew Longo, MATTHEW LONGO, a researcher for the department of political science at Yale University, currently lives in Damascus.
DE-fense, DE-fense Bill Dwyre, BILL DWYRE is sports editor of The Times.
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