Word: banisher
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...neighbor, Nan Tiya, 46, is sprinkling water on the earth floor of his unfinished house to banish bad spirits. A married father of two, he was dragooned as a porter for Burmese military units fighting Karen rebels. He rolls down his battered jungle boots to show scars caused by the shackles porters must wear. "When we were exhausted, they gave us nothing. Instead, they hit us. If someone didn't move, an officer would take a stick and beat the man to death." Nan Tiya claims he and other captives were ordered to bury the corpses of 17 porters...
...trying to posture as the palladium of freedom and limited government around the world, it makes little sense to renew a law that undermines those principles in our own country—the very principles that differentiate us from the type of regime and ideology we seek to banish...
...banish extreme poverty in our generation--yet 8 million people die each year because they are too poor to survive. The trag edy is that with a little help, they could even thrive. In a bold new book, Jeffrey D. Sachs shows how we can make it happen...
...African and banish farm...
...change their tune and come up with a hit demanding that the West drop its agricultural subsidies, cancel more debt and urge Africa's worst leaders to go. How about something like: "It's Christmastime/ There's no need to block trade/ At Christmastime/ We can buy African and banish farm aid/ And in our world of Western plenty/ We can spread our wealth around/ Throw out Africa's despots/ At Christmastime." Get 1.5 billion people singing along to that, and you could really make a difference in Africa...