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Early last year, the bush storyteller Murray Hartin penned a 14-stanza poem in three hours flat. Rain From Nowhere is about a farmer on the brink of ruin who receives an empathetic letter from his father. A celebration of resilience and hope, it is as moving a piece of Australian verse as has been published in decades. It's also pertinent. The driest continent on earth is in the grip of the worst drought in its recorded history. Beginning in 2002 and spanning, at times, the breadth of the country, the dry spell has pushed farmers to the limits...
...death when a murderous famine gripped North Korea in the 1990s. Now, the most backward, isolated country in the world may be about to see history repeat itself. According to diplomats, United Nations officials and a variety of non-government organizations, North Korea stands yet again on the brink of a major food shortage. "The prospect of hunger-related deaths in the next few months is approaching certainty," says Marcus Noland, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute and co-author of a just released study raising alarms about the prospect of renewed famine. In fact, one Seoul-based...
...there’s so much murder to be done?So I mostly don’t care that Friday’s opening performance on the Loeb Mainstage, directed by Jesse A. Wiener ’08 and Jason M. Lazarcheck ’08, teetered on the brink of collapse for nearly three hours. When the production, which will run through May 3, managed to harness the tremendous energy of Sondheim’s devilishly tricky score rather than struggle against it, the results were viscerally thrilling. This show is an embarrassment of riches. It?...
...Yale, too, seems to be on the brink of an Ivy victory, having been just inches from the elusive win on multiple occasions—the Bulldogs have not lost by more than three goals to an Ivy squad this season...
...Islamic fundamentalist movement that will sweep Africa. The U.N. World Food Programme is already feeding about 1.5 million people, while the International Committee of the Red Cross and the aid group CARE are feeding many others. As if matters could not get any worse, the country is on the brink of a severe drought. "The situation is clearly getting worse, and with predictions for the coming rainy season not being positive, we are looking at a major crisis," said Marcus Prior, the Nairobi-based spokesman for the World Food Programme. "We're doing everything we can to make sure...