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...well as the appeals from its leaders to prevent similar carnage of innocents in retaliation. It is said that God gives each nation the kind of leaders it deserves. With India's present leadership, the country can never be anything but the neighborhood bully. SHIREEN KAMAL SAYEED Dhaka, Bangladesh...
...Choi, 20, may be making life difficult for her parents, who remember a time when Korea was as poor as Bangladesh. But she is one reason why Korea's economy, amid global recession, is currently outperforming nearly every other country's in the world. Churning out everything from ships to semiconductors, Korea emerged as an export powerhouse during the last decade?it was international trade that allowed the country to bounce back from a brush with disaster during the Asia crisis four years ago. In the current downturn, things are different. With demand from the U.S. skidding, Korea...
Although never a refugee herself, Bangladeshi-born Khan knows the experience of being uprooted from a war-torn homeland. She first left home to attend high school in Ireland, a move she calls ironic since she left civil war in Bangladesh only to find herself in another strife-riven nation. After university in the U.K. - where she met her German-born economist husband - she studied law at Harvard. It was there that she developed an interest in human-rights issues. She has since spent her entire career in the field - until now at the U.N. refugee agency. Her Amnesty term...
Where do the new New Yorkers come from? Everywhere. Large numbers of immigrants now arrive not just from such traditional countries of origin as Russia, Ireland and the Dominican Republic but also from Nigeria, Bangladesh and Egypt. To be Hispanic in New York once meant you were Puerto Rican. Not now. In 1990 there were only 62,000 Mexicans in the city; by 2000 there were an estimated...
...best qualities of that of the other Beatles. Harrison brought his own spiritual and philosophical views to the mix. It's about time that he was recognized as the philanthropic precursor to Bob Geldof, founder of the Live Aid fund-raising rock concerts. Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh was the first true big-name benefit concert. Thanks for your recognition of Harrison: spiritual man, philanthropist, musician, Beatle. MICHAEL B. NAHMIAS East Windsor...