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...Gaza is an example of a society that has been deliberately reduced to a state of abject destitution, its once productive population transformed into one of aid-dependent paupers. This context is undeniably one of mass suffering, created largely by Israel but with the active complicity of the international community, especially the U.S. and European Union, and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank...

Author: By Sara Roy | Title: The Peril of Forgetting Gaza | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...Gaza is an example of a society that has been deliberately reduced to a state of abject destitution, its once productive population transformed into one of aid-dependent paupers. This context is undeniably one of mass suffering, created largely by Israel but with the active complicity of the international community, especially the U.S. and European Union, and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank...

Author: By Sara Roy | Title: The Peril of Forgetting Gaza | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...Washington has been an abject failure at defending our border.' RICK PERRY, saying the Lone Star State will simply have to "take care of itself." Obama later agreed to send 37 federal agents to the region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...Francisco show, which was organized by Mark Rosenthal, a curator at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla., climaxes with a multiscreen gallery of films connected to that production. The nose climbs a ladder in silhouette (and tumbles down); a Cossack dances. On another screen are abject snippets from the 1937 trial transcript of Nikolai Bukharin, one of the multitude of old Bolshevik leaders devoured by Stalin. It's too soon to know how Kentridge will connect all this into a coherent production. But there won't be a diamond-crusted skull or a mirror-steel bling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Artist William Kentridge: Man of Constant Sorrow | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

Eventually, the Indian coast guard picked up the surviving refugees and immediately noticed their abject state. The coast guard's report stated that there was a significant amount of water flooding the barge; Indian ships reportedly attempted to search for the 300 missing but were able to rescue only nine refugees from the sea. The survivors have been fed and given medical treatment. They are being housed in relief camps, where they were reached by phone calls from the Arakan Project as well as a reporter from the BBC. The Thai government has yet to return TIME's calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abandoned at Sea: The Sad Plight of the Rohingya | 1/18/2009 | See Source »

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