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...Hasna's wasiyeh, her face is uncovered, her long dark hair is loose. She stares straight at the camera and speaks in a low, unchanging voice. Although she doesn't seem to be consulting any notes, the speech seems rehearsed - she never pauses to collect her thoughts. The 15-minute monologue is entirely about her little brother - about how he was an obedient child who grew up to be a respectful young man, one who loved his family and would do anything for their happiness. Hasna relates anecdotes about Thamer's precociousness in school, his skill at drawing, his talent...
...dusty plain in northeastern Uganda, two women have come to blows. One shrieks as the other shoves. A volunteer from the World Food Program (WFP) has called one of them forward to collect an emergency food-aid ration, but both women want it. "They have the same name," explains local administrator Teko John Bosco...
...laughs uncomfortably and scans the teeming plain. More than 2,000 residents of this parish, Lokali, have come to collect food aid on a hot Saturday in May, and though the crowds have dwindled as the sun sinks and people drag or carry home their sacks - a month's ration of mostly corn, with some beans - many recipients remain. They stand or sit in groups, waiting for food if they haven't yet been called, and arguing over how to divide the rations they've received. At the center with the food stash, police clutch assault rifles to scare...
...most basic form, an alumni registry is just data that is collected and aggregated. There is no reason why one employee working school hours (8 a.m. to 3 p.m.) five days a week should not be able to collect such information. This task can be delegated to current employees if needed, to avoid having to hire someone else. Even taking into account some practical issues—such as low response rates caused by anything from laziness to a dysfunctional household—the benefits having an alumni registry are greater than the work that goes into actually creating them...
...starting to bother me," LeJeune says. His unit had been protecting Iraqi police stations targeted by rocket-propelled grenades, hunting down mortars hidden in dark Baghdad basements and cleaning up its own messes. He recalls the order his unit got after a nighttime firefight to roll back out and collect the enemy dead. When LeJeune and his buddies arrived, they discovered that some of the bodies were still alive. "You don't always know who the bad guys are," he says. "When you search someone's house, you have it built up in your mind that these guys are terrorists...