Word: ethiopia
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Some feel the calling early but heed it only later. Josh Ruxin, a doctor's son from Ridgefield, Conn., traveled at 17 to study development projects in Ethiopia with a school group. "That changed the rest of my life," says Ruxin, 36. "I couldn't believe that people so desperately poor were living on the same planet as we were." After earning a doctorate at University College London in medical history, he joined the Monitor Group, a management consultancy in Cambridge, Mass. "There's a dearth of management skills in nonprofits," he says, explaining that choice. When some colleagues broke...
...Greenspan, has nominated globetrotting actress and tabloid fixation ANGELINA JOLIE for membership. Selection of members is based on their demonstrated interest in world affairs. Jolie, who spent Oscar weekend visiting refugees in Chad for the United Nations and who has adopted a son from Cambodia and a daughter from Ethiopia, clearly fills that bill. Frankly, we can't imagine anyone better to disarm a rogue state...
...married life were a strange combination of personal joys and national disaster. Suzzy and her husband had two children - son Jubilant, now 25, and daughter Nutifafe (Peace), 23 - but the drought and hunger were tightening their grip. Ghana never experienced anything as bad as the famines that choked Ethiopia in the early 1970s or the mid-1980s, but the nation hurt all the same. As they would elsewhere, aid groups poured millions of dollars into plans for development. Some of the money worked; much of it did not. The crisis was exacerbated by Nigeria's decision to expel thousands...
...brutal violence that are recounted in this story. Though I cried when Lightning McQueen pushed The King over the finish line in the cartoon movie “Cars,” I barely blinked or cringed while reading about a boy who was kicked to death in Ethiopia fighting over rations.Eggers saves us, though, by recognizing that in our violence-saturated daily lives, what really brings the suffering home in this story and tugs at the heartstrings is not the gruesome descriptions of a brutal nightmare, but the shocking simplicity of Deng’s and his friends?...
...world's Jews remain in the Diaspora. The resurrection of a dormant language, Hebrew, for everyday use, a constantly renewed and invented tongue that has helped compose a functioning society, and democracy, out of the disparate characters and cultures that have come to the Promised Land from Poland, Morocco, Ethiopia, Mexico, everywhere. The earlier Zionist settlers had paved the way over several generations, but Israel from the moment of its beginning in 1948 was an act of collective will and courage, a valor that arose in part out of desperation. A flourishing culture. Universities, clinics, industries, social welfare, housing...