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...financial crisis, the Porcellian Club will have to lease the Bike Room to a local business. The owners of a mediocre burrito joint and a purveyor of useless but overpriced knickknacks will come to blows over the space, and two WASPs will sustain minor injuries as they flee the kerfuffle. The College will finally remark on the lack of social space on campus...
...have faced repeated disruption to their work could get on with the job of saving lives and, once law and order improved, trade and business would also pick up. Conversely, failure to resolve Zimbabwe's crisis would have negative implications, intensifying the suffering in Zimbabwe, spurring more to flee into neighboring countries and signaling to other dictators that their rule will be tolerated by their fellow Africans...
Over many desperate years, they have tried to flee to the comparatively richer climes of Southeast Asia. Waves of Rohingya migrants routinely take to the sea from the marshlands and jungle of eastern Bangladesh, often with the help of people smugglers who charge extortionate rates for their services. One report says Thai authorities alone picked up 4,886 Rohingya in an unspecified period from...
...Palestinians say more than a dozen civilians died in the fighting on Thursday, pushing the death toll to over 1,060. Witnesses described thousands of families carrying babies and pushing their elderly in wheelchairs to flee Israeli tanks. Civilians in the densely packed slice of land carpeted with teeming slums are finding themselves with no safe places of refuge as the Israelis tighten their grip. TIME correspondent Azmy Keshawi recounted the scene in his neighborhood: "We knew that an Israeli sniper was on top of the next-door apartment building. As one of our neighbors tried to leave the building...
...would prosecutors be so worried about Madoff shipping jewelry to relatives? There are several reasons. One could be because he is hiding assets, so he can flee and live off them. Even though the million dollars or so in jewelry is a drop in the bucket compared to what he defrauded victims of, it is enough money to live off when you are on the lam. The second reason would be that he could be shipping assets around to avoid paying restitution later. Third, the things we've just talked about show that he is someone who would disobey court...