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...hand and stares glumly at the crush of people in front of him. For the past year the 27-year-old has worked for a cosmetics factory in this southern Chinese city, and now he's trying to get home to see his mother near Suzhou in eastern China, 20 hours away by rail. He's going to miss his connection. Around him hundreds of people, all hoping to find seats, push toward an opening in the metal fence surrounding the station as a police officer shouts into a megaphone, calling for order. The hands of the giant neon green...
...fell short of reminding readers that the same demons haunt Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas. They arise from the evil in human nature. And by the way, Kenya is not Africa's sole "island of stability." My country, Ghana, and many others are poor but stable. Africa has been marginalized in the American media, except when it comes to bloodshed. Unfortunately, you affect Africa's effort to develop as much by what you choose not to report. William K. Agadzi, Eorcester, Mass...
...2001?the first visit to Greece by a Pope in 1,300 years. He urged young people to come "as you are, earrings and all," and dramatically upped church attendance. Despite criticism for his sometimes shrill nationalism and willingness to meddle in politics?as when he called the Turks "Eastern barbarians" or attacked NATO's bombers of Serbia as "pawns of Satan"?he remained one of his nation's most popular figures. He was 69 and had cancer...
...Vegas' Red Rock resort, I was bummed I couldn't find someone to bet me what he would look like. Because I would have made a lot of money. He had a pinstriped suit, a faint beard, a faint paunch and a not-so-faint gold chain with an Eastern Orthodox cross, a Greek evil eye and a Hindu om. I was not sure I trusted an oddsmaker who wasn't willing to set a line on who would triumph at the apocalypse...
...Harvard is coming off a season in which it amassed an 11-6 overall record, but fell short in several conference matches to finish third in the Hay Division of the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA...