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...that his Poor People's Campaign may not win, but [he felt] it's the direction I want to point toward and it is nonviolent and I may not get there with you, which of course accounts for the title [of the book]-all my titles come out of Exodus-like Moses, he got right up to the edge and was allowed to see a vision where equality is the leading spirit in America and the Freedom Movement, but it's coming apart, and he's not allowed to go there. Like Moses, he doesn't get to the promised...
...petition. “I actually do not think they should organize a petition,” said Tulane visiting freshman William Y. Ke ’09. “Harvard is an example for everyone else. If Harvard were to say yes, there would be a mass exodus from Tulane.” Susana M. Kostaras is another visiting Tulane freshman who is not advocating a petition. “I personally don’t think I’m going out of my way to stay here. I’m grateful to Harvard and hold...
...approaches, so too does the invasion of undesirable houseguests in homes all across America. Likewise, in “Ushpizin” (Aramaic for “holy guests”), unholy houseguests stir up holiday trouble—only in this film, the celebration is of the biblical Exodus rather than a settler/American-Indian dinner. “Ushpizin” is the first film made with collaboration between the ultra-Orthodox community and secular filmmakers and is aimed squarely at general audiences as an comedy anyone can enjoy. Set in modern-day Jerusalem, it follows the lives of poor...
...found that more than 5,300 doctors who attended medical schools in sub-Saharan Africa--almost entirely at public expense--now practice in the U.S. (An additional 3,500 or so are working in Britain.) An editorial in last week's New England Journal of Medicine called this exodus "a silent theft from the poorest countries" and estimated that African nations pay $500 million a year to educate and train medical staff who wind up emigrating...
...them to physical, mental, and sexual abuse, according to international human rights organizations and local activists. Every night, thousands of children stream into northern Uganda’s major cities—like Gulu—to spend the night and avoid the LRA. At the peak of the exodus, some 40,000 children walked into Gulu every night, according to Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental organization. Five of the LRA commanders were indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity on July 8—the first-ever arrest warrants...