Word: bangladeshis
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...pure pandemonium, the sweating, heaving epicenter of the most crowded nation on earth. (With 129 million inhabitants packed into an area the size of Iowa, Bangladesh is three times more densely populated than neighboring India and seven times more jammed than China.) Don't be surprised if an enthusiastic Bangladeshi befriends you in the street and invites you home for tea and a meal. He will invariably ask for your address as a start to what he hopes will be an overseas friendship and, eventually, a ticket out. Many visitors soon discover Dhaka is a place they too want...
...INDIA Border Battles Bangladesh and India met to calm hostilities on their disputed border after clashes killed at least 18 soldiers. India's Ministry of External Affairs said the two countries had agreed to return to positions they held before Bangladeshi border guards occupied a strip of land inside India, including a village they claim to be theirs. Some 20,000 civilians fled the fighting, which was halted by the hoisting of white flags...
...later that day in his hotel suite, Bush agreed to the battle plan. The next 18 days would be the ugliest of his political career. In the heart of the Confederacy, phone callers and leaflets attacked McCain's wife's drug addiction, made racial attacks on McCain's adopted Bangladeshi daughter and warned of "McCain's fag army." Bush won the state by 11 points...
While many remember with fondness the special convocation for Nelson Mandela or the charm of King Abdullah of Jordan, a few guests, like Mahuad, could be accused of using the University's name for unsavory ends. For example, this past spring, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed, touted as a progressive woman leader, gave a public address at the Institute of Politics. While many in the audience gushed at how wonderful it was to see a female head of government from South Asia, no one mentioned another Bangladeshi proponent of women's rights, Kalpana Chakma...
...better or worse, the Harvard name can give international figures a boost back home. Hasina's visit was covered in the Bangladeshi press, which made sure to add her to the list of all the other prominent personalities who have in the past been invited to speak at the Institute of Politics (IOP). The website of Wamba dia Wamba's rebel group (designed by a Kenyan refugee working at gunpoint) prominently announced his Kennedy school talk, as well as other university engagements...