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center, in politics, a party following a middle course. The term was first used in France in 1789, when the moderates of the National Assembly sat in the center of the hall. It can refer to a separate party in a political system, e.g., the Catholic Center party of imperial and Weimar Germany, or to the middle group of a party consisting of several ideological factions.

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He has chosen to "render" (his word) the often dramatic situations at hand through eloquent portraits of the people caught up in them--portraits often made in the most rudimentary conditions imaginable: a makeshift "studio" in a feeding center where Somali mothers brought their
Sheikh spent several weeks at a feeding center run by Doctors Without Borders, an organization who spends months nursing the children back to their normal weight.
In Melanje, I visited a feeding center, and held a dying baby in my arms.
 
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