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...months ago, she tells of her horrific journey last year to find her mother, who lives in a village in her poverty-stricken homeland. Dirie found spiritual nourishment in her family's courage, faith and humor, but also much to distress her. She writes movingly of Somalia's dire poverty and of the problems caused by the entrenched attitudes of its tribal culture, which keep the country divided and so often in turmoil. Especially troubling to her is how these views ensure that women have few rights and remain subjugated by men. Dirie has been speaking out about one aspect...
...dozen Tokyo commuters, dire prophecy came true. On a sunny March morning in 1995, Aum members, in an apparent attempt to create mayhem and distract a police investigation into their operations, used the tips of umbrellas to puncture plastic bags filled with liquid sarin, which they left behind on five subway trains. A poisonous, invisible cloud spread through the carriages and stations. Thousands of people were made sick, and 12 died...
...said, wrongly, that a dirty bomb "can cause mass death and injury." White House officials fumed at what one called Ashcroft's "grandstanding." The officials concede they approved Ashcroft's statement but complain they were given it only at the last minute--and didn't anticipate his overly dire tone...
...that Bush had said he would talk with Simon about prohibiting offshore oil drilling off the California coast. (Davis has been fighting the White House on this issue for some time.) Bush has been a proponent of offshore drilling as a way to alleviate energy concerns. But despite his dire warnings that the country has to drill more, Bush will give California a reprieve if it helps Simon win. He did the same thing for his brother Jeb in Florida, signaling that while he had no problems with drilling in most of the Gulf of Mexico, he wouldn't allow...
...craft while Eastern Europe was still shut behind the Iron Curtain and so avoided the market forces that have weakened other folk traditions. Now, says Simon Broughton, were it not for Roma, the popular music of Romania, Bulgaria, former Yugoslavia and many parts of Greece would be in a dire state: "The way to preserve this music is to use it, and that is what the Roma are doing. As for Roma themselves, hearing the music is more than entertainment." The irony is that while gypsy music is being welcomed in the West, its following at home - among non-Roma...