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...Enter President Fernandez, and his government’s systematic abuse of Haitians and Dominico-Haitians, who are not only allowed to remain in dire poverty within the miserable bateyes, but who are in fact actively rounded up and deported at the drop of a hat, their visas and work permits disregarded or even destroyed. “Snatched off the street, dragged from their homes, or picked up from their workplaces, ‘Haitian-looking’ people are rarely given a fair opportunity to challenge their expulsion during these wholesale sweeps,” noted the Human...
There is admittedly a certain irony in redefining as luxury items ingredients formerly associated with subsistence eating or animal feed. It wasn't all that long ago, before the days of Nordic affluence and takeout pizza, that eating tree bark and foraging for edible lawn clippings were reserved for dire necessity or particularly hard times. "For a long time," says Danish restaurant critic and former Slow Food president Bent Christensen, "all we had were pigs, coal, potatoes and the cold. We were not proud of our own kitchen. Not anymore. We want to discover our own good things. Nordic cuisine...
...shrill reaction to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's request to visit Ground Zero is playing right into the Iranian President's hands. He faces growing unpopularity at home, thanks to a dire economy and mounting religious and cultural repression. But his power base is made up mainly of Iranians who participated in the 1979 revolution, among whom the loathing of the U.S. runs very deep. Nothing energizes them more than the sight of their leader being excoriated by the hated Americans...
...said. Fixing the old Web site, which had changed little since its inception in 2003, has been a priority since at least 2005, when former UC President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 informed the council that “our Web site is terrible and in dire need of fixing.” Petersen, who himself referred to the overhaul of the Web site as “a priority since day one,” first issued a request for proposals for the new site in June, receiving five bids ranging as high as $35,000. Tina...
Forecasters are, as a group, notoriously bad at predicting inflection points, so you shouldn't take this dire talk to the bank just yet. At the Economic Cycle Research Institute, an outfit with a good record of at least noticing when recessions have begun, the indicators still point toward growth--albeit less convincingly than two months ago. "Having a jobs report come in negative does not mean that a recession has started," says managing director Lakshman Achuthan. But the risk is there, and Achuthan guesses it will worsen if loan markets fail to calm down. If a month from...