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...swell the immigrant population in Paris and other cities across France, and are multiplied millions of times across the world. Such tales are nothing new. The color TV in a remote Turkish farmstead and the concrete-walled house amid shacks of corrugated iron have often been paid for by absent family members. Plenty of church halls in Ireland have been funded by passing the plate around congregations in Boston and New York. But the scale of money flows is new. Mass migration has produced a giant worldwide economy all its own, which has accelerated so fast during the past...
...father Mamadou first headed there. Set atop the steep northern bank of the Senegal River, the village at first glance looks like countless others in West Africa. Goats and donkeys meander down the dirt lanes, and women scrub clothes in the river. But Ambadedi has cherished luxuries that are absent from other remote parts of Mali. There is a generator that lights up most of the houses every night. A water tower feeds water to several collection points. And television antennas bristle from the rooftops of two-story concrete houses - a far cry from the mud hut in which...
...most oppressive aspect of this Darwinistic system is the way it hurts unassertive, less gregarious students. These disenfranchised are absent from debates in the public sphere because of their passive natures. They are the ones who need this idea of a natural community most and are also the least likely to get it—hence, perhaps, our substantial rate of depression. Maybe this is also why Harvard students turn to extracurricular activities with such a vengeance (it’s not just résumé building): they do it to find the community not available in the Houses...
...international rule of law for trade and a body to enforce it?the WTO itself. It has delivered some stinging blows to both the European Union and the U.S., including rulings that some of the most contentious subsidies they pay to their farmers, on cotton and sugar, are illegal. Absent a Doha agreement, says Stiglitz, "the best hope for developing countries would be for them to use that rule of law to push back at the U.S. and the E.U. Once they have shown that subsidies are illegal, they can then come back to the bargaining table...
...easy to see why Charlie keeps the loyal friend close at hand.According to Ramis, the constant state of inebriation that defines Pete came somewhat naturally to Platt. “I saw Oliver play drunk without any alcohol at all,” says Ramis. Though Thornton was notably absent among the stars at the press conference, Cusack took care to laud his uninhibited approach to acting. “Billy Bob is kind of a lot like Oliver, where you can’t go down a road that they can’t follow you down...