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Bernard Kouchner, the man behind Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders), a one-time U.N. administrator and ex-health minister, is highly skilled in the art of global management. He has played a crucial role in international humanitarian efforts for more than 30 years, supervising people and projects in many of the world's war-ravaged areas from El Salvador to Rwanda. Frustrated with the charity's strict code of neutrality and reliance on the permission of the host government to give assistance, he and like-minded medics set up Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) three years later. And in 1999 MSF -- an organization that believes...

If political corruption scandals, two African-American sacrificial lambs, union activism, felons on the ballot, and Black History Month couldn't make it happen, then what would it take for Chicago area voters to show up at the polls in numbers that could be described in terms other than "disappointing" or "pathetic." Really, I need to know. Because on Sunday, I'll be in Selma, Ala., watching presidential hopefuls praise the high and the lowly for the suffering they endured to get the Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed. Barack Obama will deliver the keynote address at the historic Brown Chapel AME Church,...