just off the front pages, or the A section, but out of the NY Times and Washington Post completely. I had to go to the BBC for this report . It's symptomatic, I suppose, of our fast-paced, 24 hour news-cycle lives, that the biggest short-term humanitarian crisis in the world would quickly be eclipsed, once our Secretary of State was finished with his whirlwind tour, from the newspapers. It's just disappointing. Most troubling, however, is the fact that the political will to end the crisis expressed a few short weeks ago seems to have ebbed. At that time, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan demanded steps be taken to end the ethnic violence in Darfur within 48 hours. Two weeks later, and the violence continues. The African Union is