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...people talking. They want in on the game like everyone else, they say - only in a viable, sustainable way. They want to help everyone from average middle-class folk to the marginalized residents of France's blighted housing projects. Delli, who grew up in a poor area herself, says that's why the movement cuts across class and racial lines. "Our array of single-issue causes actually looks more like a checklist of problems - like economic chaos, mass youth unemployment, global warming and falling expectations - that this generation is having to face for the first time," says Delli. "New challenges...
...China and Taiwan during the Cold War. This confrontation almost led the United States to use nuclear force against China on two separate occasions. Szonyi is currently working on a book that compares villagers’ perspectives in Quemoy with villagers in mainland China who live in the area across from the islands. His most recent trip to China yielded interviews with villagers in the mainland who told stories similar to those of the villagers in Quemoy, showing that despite their different ideologies, the villagers were impacted in a similar way, he said...
According to shift supervisor Alyssa Criscuoll, the popular locale had been completely gutted and renovated to cater to student customers, with a larger cafe area that offers more seating and a larger waiting space to decrease crowding. Read on to find out what else Criscuoll says has replaced "that really early 90's orange thing we had going...
...project is slated to become the biggest-ever foreign-investment commitment in Burma. As Beijing sends People's Liberation Army reinforcements to its land across from the conflict zone, it can only hope that the Burmese regime keeps a fragile peace with the various ethnic groups in other border areas. "This area has always been like a bomb waiting to go off," says the Kachin Independence Army's Gun Maw. "Everyone, from all sides, has to be very careful...
Harvard Law School’s Legal Services Center, which provides low-income Boston-area clients with free or reduced fee lawyering and students with law practice experience, has recently seen its budget cut by roughly a third, and four of its 13 clinics have been relocated to the Law School’s Cambridge campus from Jamaica Plain.Three of the four clinics that moved in mid-August facilitate community business development and comprise the Community Enterprise Project (CEP), and the fourth aids families with children who have been exposed to family violence, according to Elaine McArdle, spokeswoman for HLS?...