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...Austrian far-right politician Heinz-Christian Strache, Neusiedl am See is ripe for revolution. Speaking on a recent sun-drenched evening in the picture-book town square, he shouted and railed against the European Union, rising food prices, and the danger posed by "criminal immigrants." "Anyone who comes here and doesn't work, and becomes a criminal, will be deported!" warns the blue-eyed politico, a dental technician by training, dressed in an elegant brown linen designer jacket, to loud cheers from the gathering crowd and a blast of his own rap song, "Viva H.C.!" from towering speakers...
More will die if health-care systems are not reformed. In the first half of this year, 889 babies were delivered in Freetown's crumbling Princess Christian Maternity Hospital. During that period, 70 women died giving birth, and about eight more women have died since--an astonishing death rate of about 9%. Yet far from being overstretched, the hospital most days feels desultory, with nurses lingering in near empty wards because people cannot afford to pay for care. Emergency maternity care is supposed to be free in Sierra Leone, but in reality, patients are asked to pay for every item...
...Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...example,” he recalled. “In protest, I deactivated my account on the spot,” Not all students are as incensed about the redesign as Bethel. “I didn’t like it at first,” said Christian L. Garland ’10, “but then after using it I found that it was cleaner, more efficient, and less cluttered. Like a good vacuum.” His advice to peers who aren’t as happy is simple: “Get over...
...problem of Jack leaves a slackness at the heart of the book, and Robinson never takes it in. Two-thirds of the way through, you're desperate for Jack and Glory to fall into bed together, even if they are brother and sister, just as a gesture of Christian charity toward a reader starved for incident. It's a strange thing for a novel to be full of so much wisdom and craft and still be so unsatisfying. It's as if Robinson somehow understands everything about people--their astounding strength, their pathetic weakness--but has forgotten something essential about...