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February 8-14, 2006
Vol. 13 No.7
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What the Children Saw
Darfur’s refugee children tell their stories through crayons and paper

By LAURA CRUIKSHANK


Sudanese children, displaced by the Genocide in Darfur, were given crayons and paper to recount their experiences. Here, a youth named Mahmoud shows men in green abducting women and girls. A house burns, center, while a helicopter hovers above, upper left. Photo courtesy Human Rights watch.
NEWS
Higher Education
ACLU, students say financial aid shouldn’t end over drug convictions

By ROSETTE ROYALE
Ex-felons Fight for Vote
ACLU court challenge awaits ruling

By CYDNEY GILLIS
Short takes
Change Agent
Just Heard...
 

Get the money influence out of local politics

Every year, campaigns get more and more expensive, preventing many qualified candidates from running for office and making it harder to even consider running against an incumbent.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
BOOK REVIEW: Regrets, They’ve Had a Few
The Last Time I Saw You

By Rebecca Brown
Review by ADAM HYLA
FILM REVIEW: One Great Big Fight Club
Why We Fight

Directed by Eugene Jarecki
By LESTER GRAY
INTERVIEW
What a Bomb Does
Recovered but not fully restored, nurse Emily Lyons educates people about the extremism that nearly took her life

Interview by LAURA PEACH
 
 
EDITORIAL
Don’t Close the Clinics
Cuts in community health clinic funding mean higher costs— for everyone

By LINDA McVEIGH
ADVENTURES IN IRONY
Eating from Aesop’s Table

By DR. WES BROWNING
Bus Chick, Transit Authority
Bus Chick ’s Manifesto
by Carla Saulter

DIRECTOR'S CORNER

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