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Paulsen took Doritos to Yemen

By Chris Steller | 05.07.09 | 12:46 pm

images-4Rep. Erik Paulsen brought three bags of Doritos to Africa last month, the Eden Prairie News reports.  

Despite “despair,” groups plan Darfur action for 2007

By Paul Schmelzer | 12.22.06 | 8:51 am

The situation in Darfur is grim.

Former U.S. Senator Rudy Boschwitz laments that just 7,000 African Union troops are confronting the monumental task of averting genocide in a region of Sudan “about the size of…

With Darfur in “free fall,” can Congress transcend partisanship?

By Paul Schmelzer | 12.09.06 | 1:04 pm

US politicians on both sides of the aisle have spoken out about the civil war in the Darfur region of Sudan that has killed some 400,000 people and displaced two million more — including…