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At a market stall in southern Sudan, Darfuri trader Omer Saleh, 45, turned up the volume on his small battery-operated radio. Radio Dabanga, he said - the Dutch-based service that transmits Darfur news by local journalists through shortwave frequencies into Sudan - "is the only way I can know what is happening at home."

Half a world away in New York, Ahmat Nour, president of the Darfur People's Association of New York, said he listens to the Radio Dabanga broadcasts every day: "I download the two episodes and listen to them through the Net as soon as I finish work."

... are serious," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, who hailed the blueprint as "a breakthrough. ...

Lorenzen is paid by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, while Goldwein is paid by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which is also partly funded ...

"If we can't get anything real ... this could be the first step," said MacGuineas, who serves as president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget ...

Clemons has been a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, and he will continue to direct the DC think tank's American Strategy Program. ...

National Public Radio's decision to fire news analyst Juan Williams after he made controversial comments on Fox News about Muslims has become — for some Republican lawmakers, at least — a teachable moment. NPR, House speaker-in-waiting John Boehner (R-Ohio) said recently, is a "left-wing radio network" and should be stripped of federal funding. Eric Cantor, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Bill O'Reilly and other conservative voices have issued similar calls.

"One of the things I've been totally convinced of is something that the Indians said: 'Once you name something, you own it,' " said Joel Garreau, ...

"This issue can be seen as a litmus test for fiscal responsibility," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, ...

... The intensification of the drone campaign is unprecedented in scale. According to records kept by the New America Foundation, the 22 strikes the CIA is known to have carried out in September nearly doubled the previous monthly record, ...

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At a conference last week sponsored by Arizona State University, the New America Foundation and Slate magazine, University of Maryland distinguished ...