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Help for Congo

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News from the Ituri region of the misnamed Democratic Republic of Congo
in recent weeks has been so grim as to make one want to turn the page or
flip the TV channel in despair: tens of thousand

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Adam Hochschild
Adam Hochschild's most recent books are King Leopold's Ghost (Houghton Mifflin) and Finding the Trapdoor (Syracuse).

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