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- COVER STORIES, Page 30SOMALIALandscape of Death
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- The harrowing faces of starvation, the inert shapes of death.
- These are the images that have finally brought the world to
- Somalia's rescue. Why did it take so long, when some reporters
- have been telling the story for months? Such is the power of
- pictures: people are starving and dying in Liberia, Sudan,
- southern Iraq, Burma, Peru, yet no massive aid is offered.
- Humanitarian concern has no logical stopping point, but the
- world's attention is hard to capture. It is easy to argue that
- policymakers should not wait for gruesome television footage
- before they respond. But if images like these are what it takes
- to bring mercy to even one people in peril, so be it.
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