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...their kids are slipping away from them. "When you try to say, 'Don't worry, you have the same level of parental responsibility as your spouse,' they don't all of a sudden go, 'Oh, well, then, that's fine I'm only seeing my child one day a fortnight,'" says Cumming. "That's not the issue. These terms are great for lawyers in that we understand them, we work with them and we can get our heads around them, but the client doesn't think that way. They're thinking, How long until I see my child and what...
...have just started .on an essay on Governor Smith, having completed one on Woodrow Wilson a fortnight...
...Adeang used to watch the country's fleet of new planes roll up and down the island's runway, and its cargo ships race in and out of port. Now Nauru can only afford to pay him and his fellow ministers, including the nation's president, $A100 a fortnight. Even the minister must rely on relatives catching fish to feed him and his family. It's a sorry fall from the 1960s and '70s when phosphate exports brought the 21-sq. km republic wild riches. Now the wealth, and most of the phosphate, is gone, squandered in poor investment decisions...
Classrooms on Nauru need pens and books, the hospital is short of equipment and there are fears the electricity supply could collapse when Australian-donated fuel runs out in March. About 1,300 public servants are now receiving the $A100 a fortnight salary, but thousands of Nauruans who work for state-owned enterprises haven't been paid for months. Adeang constantly has to explain to people queueing at his office why the government can't give them the $A30 they need for a bag of rice. "There are so many expectations on us to come up with some solutions." Money...
...same week, kidnappers freed three Indian truck drivers, three Kenyans and an Egyptian but killed three Turks.) The executions produced concerns of a different kind for Nepal's Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, who was accused of not doing enough to free the hostages. The deaths capped a rough fortnight in which the Maoists tried to cripple Kathmandu by forcing 12 corporations to close and threatening trucks supplying the city. (They relented a week later in the face of popular defiance.) A few weeks later, supporters of one of Deuba's political rivals staged a one-day general strike...