Word: abroader
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...India's Naxalites and Nepal's Maoists-the Philippine rebels have survived because they are primarily fueled not by foreign ideology but by domestic realities: poverty, corruption, unemployment. Some 40% of Filipinos live on less than $2 a day, while a tenth of the 87 million population seeks work abroad. Corruption watchdog Transparency International ranks the Philippines near the bottom of its corruption index, alongside Nepal and Rwanda. The N.P.A. promotes communism as the only cure for the Philippines' many ills, but even Filipinos who reject its cause still share its grievances...
...power struggle and who will be sharing the booty," says editor Chowdhury. "Politics has been polluted." A group of students from a private university in a Dhaka suburb concurs. Tauhid Jalil, 21, who is in his fourth year of a degree in finance and economics and wants to study abroad, says he has lost all faith in Bangladesh's leaders-in "the way they talk, the way they express themselves, the way they act like kids, the way they don't compromise." Nearby, beneath election posters strung across a street and fluttering in a gentle breeze, Nazrul Islam, a father...
...could have gone abroad to live in greater safety and comfort. But you were passionate about Istanbul and would always say, "This city belongs to us all, regardless of religion and ethnicity...
DIED. Abbé Pierre, 94, French Catholic priest who stubbornly championed the homeless in France and abroad; in Paris. In 1954 he won national attention after coming across a woman who had frozen to death on a Paris street, her eviction papers in hand. His frantic cry on the radio--"Friends! Help!"--prompted volunteers to donate blankets for other homeless people and pressured the government to offer some 12,000 units of housing...
...long way from a [Castro-style] regime." Chavez gushingly admires and subsidizes Castro. But many officials in Caracas, especially younger ones, wince when you equate the two. They insist their democratically elected commandante is hardly poised to snuff out free speech and free enterprise or stoke armed revolution abroad. Chavez may control the hemisphere's largest oil reserves, but they believe he can't afford to squander a more valuable commodity - his democratic legitimacy, something Castro never had and which gives Chavez the ability to blunt U.S. efforts to cast him as the Caribbean's new communist caudillo...