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...winning football team’s loss in the fourth quarter of the game, saying that “in the space of just a couple hours, you could feel the wind go out.” At the end of the lecture, audience member Michelle A. Payne, whose brother served in Filkins’s unit, asked Filkins about an episode in his book, in which an excursion by Filkins and his photographer resulted in the death of a marine. Payne said her brother had criticized Filkins’s involvement in the marine’s death...
...Badarpur village, with its dusty, pungent streets and tumbledown tenements, is far removed from the confident affluence of Nehru Place. Inside a tiny, cluttered room lit by a single tube-light, nine girls are waiting for their bhaiyya, - 'older brother' in Hindi. An all-girl class is rare; parents who are unable to afford education for their children usually shelve daughters' education first. According to UN figures, 42 million children between the ages of 6 and 14 are not in school in India. The national literacy rate of girls over seven years is 54%, compared to 75% for boys...
...against the PAD are those associated with former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a military coup in 2006. On the evening of Oct. 6, members of the PAD swarmed the streets around parliament in what they called their ultimate mission: stopping Somchai, who is Thaksin's brother-in-law, from delivering an inaugural policy address. Until a Prime Minister and his cabinet speak before the legislature, they cannot exercise their powers. No speech, no official government action...
Corsi had also planned to deliver a $1,000 check to Obama's half-brother George, who lives in a slum in Nairobi. One Republican ad has accused Obama of abandoning his brother, who was recently reported in Italian Vanity Fair to be living on a dollar a month. But George Obama has repeatedly denied that he said any such thing or that he feels abandoned by Obama. George Obama is currently in school studying to be an auto mechanic and says he has plenty...
...award is seen as well-deserved by members of the journalism community. “I don’t know any journalists who’s more courageous in her work,” her brother David L. Goodman ’82, who has co-written books with his sister, said...