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...human waste that many Hindus were understandably hesitant about diving in recent weeks to ritually cleanse their souls as their faith directs. But after thousands of holy men threatened to boycott the six-week festival - one of the largest gatherings in the world - while others said they would commit the ritual suicide "jal samadhi" in protest, officials in India flushed the river with water from an upstream dam. Here's how other waterways have fared since their filthy conditions were plunged into the spotlight...
...offspring of a well-off family in Lyons, Henri Grou?s was inspired by St. Francis of Assisi to commit his life to what he called "absolute Love." Chronic bad health made it impossible for him to continue his original choice of staying in a Capucine monastery. As it turned out, the secular world proved a fertile field for action. He joined the French Resistance during the war in Grenoble, and helped Jews, forced laborers and others escape from occupied France; it was in that capacity that he took the name Abb? Pierre. In 1944 he moved to Algiers to join...
...Congo's 60 million people prepared for the country's first free elections in four decades. Officially, war ended in 2003. But the aftershocks of one of Africa's most devastating conflagrations go on. Rebel militias continue to rape and murder, especially in the country's East. Government troops commit atrocities as well. With the election complete, it's comforting to think that the world has done its part and can now leave Congo to get on with righting itself. But the country still desperately needs help: to end the lingering violence, distribute revenues from the country's vast natural...
...youth. When he finally moved out of his parents' home, where he lived in an apartment above the garage, he set up residence in an apartment complex in Kirkwood, about three miles away. For 25 years, he worked at Imo's, a pizza parlor even closer by. And to commit the crimes he is accused of, all he had to do was take his Nissan truck two blocks to Interstate 44. The 50 miles or so he would drive to the rural towns of Richwoods and Beaufort were the most significant travel he would do. That's where, back...
Under the model, Harvard would commit to screening out the "worst-offending’"companies from any current and future investments. In order to fall into this category, a company must meet all of the following criteria: They must have a business relationship with the Sudanese government or be involved in a government-created project, fail to benefit civilians outside of the government, fail to implement a substantial corporate governance policy regarding the genocide, and fail to respond to attempts at shareholder engagement. In other words, it is a high...