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...born in Santiniketan, India, in 1933. His mother, Amita Sen, was a top student with Rabindranath Tagore, the great educator and cultural leader. His father, Ashutosh Sen, taught chemistry at Dahak University, in what is now the capital of Bangladesh...
...ambassadors sat politely as Helms delivered a civics lecture on Congress's role in U.S. foreign policy. Some doodled on notepads, but the Senator was glowing. "I think Jesse has decided he doesn't want his legacy just being obstruction," Biden suggests. After council president Anwarul Karim Chowdhury of Bangladesh larded him with praise, Helms buttonholed Holbrooke: "If Bangladesh wants anything from me, they can have...
...increasingly vocal demand for democracy in the world and the growing understanding of the need for social justice. Democracy is recovering some of its lost ground in Asia, Latin America and even Africa. Gender equity and basic education are beginning to receive more attention in India, Bangladesh and elsewhere. I am not unconditionally hopeful, but certainly conditionally so. We must, however, take a sufficiently broad view of poverty to make sure the poor have reason for hope...
...ragtag guerrilla band that has already killed and mutilated tens of thousands more people than Slobodan Milosevic's forces ever did. The U.S. moved Monday to shore up the beleaguered U.N. peacekeeping mission to the war-torn west African country by offering to fly some 700 troops from Bangladesh into Sierra Leone, and also to provide logistical support should nearby Nigeria choose to resume its policing role in the former British colony. But another 700 troops is unlikely to make much difference to a U.N. force, which, by its very nature, is only designed to keep the peace between...
...more lucrative varieties. And industrial-scale fish- and shrimp-aquaculture operations sometimes damage the coastlines where the facilities are located. The farms can foul the water, destroy mangroves and marshes, drive local fishers out of business and serve as breeding grounds for fish diseases. In places such as Bangladesh, Thailand and India, which grow shrimp mainly for export to richer countries, diseases and pollution usually limit a farm's life to 10 years. The companies then move and start again...