Tag archive for ‘zimbabwe’
Don’t Want to Tickle These Ivories
Ivory’s for sale again. Legally.
And here I thought the taboo was strong enough never to make the substance available as anything but a black (er white) market ware; I was wrong.
Merchants in Namibia held a closed door auction for nine tons of ivory (the product of roughly 10,000 dead elephants) yesterday morning. Six buyers from [...]
Before Lunch News Roundup
Tightening Credit What with a worsening housing crisis and the recent corrosion of Wall Street, lenders have been tightening their purses, making it very difficult for consumers and businesses to acquire credit.
Raising Tent Cities Reno has a new internal suburb of sorts—a tent city. The shutting down of the winter shelter, the hike in foreclosures, [...]
Before Lunch Tidbits: News Roundup
The Ike of the Storm Hurricane Ike, now traveling at 12 mph, is swiftly approaching Galveston Island. CNN reported that Texas has asked for help, coast guard has been rescuing stranded motorists, the active duty military has placed 42 search-and-rescue helicopters on stand-by and the state has anticipated about 37,000 people may need to be [...]
Daily News Round Up: Canine Heros, Curfews, and Wedgies — Oh My!
Man’s best friend does it again. A dog’s motherly instincts saved an abandoned baby boy from death in Argentina. The dog heard the cries of the child and promptly called dibbs. What’s species got to do with it?
Can Moyo please pass the mojo? For the first time since 1980, Zimbabwe’s chief opposition party, the Movement [...]
Talking points leadership: Zimbabwe
More than a week after Zimbabwe’s latest presidential elections, President Robert Mugabe’s administration has yet to release the results. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has appealed to the High Court, the president of neighboring democracy South Africa and the U.N. to pressure the president to make an announcement.
Word on the street seems to be that Mugabe [...]
NYT journalist still held in Zimbabwe jail
On two different occasions my media law professor at USC Annenberg asked our class of aspiring journalists whether we would be willing to go to jail to protect a source. As prosecutors force more reporters to either hand over the names of anonymous sources or risk going to jail, the question takes on greater importance. [...]
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