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...disaster at the moment, with millions dead or driven from their homes. MSF Belgium was permitted to stay in the area, but their staff, more isolated after the explusions, found themselves more vulnerable to attack. (The kidnapped aid workers, who included an Italian doctor, a Canadian nurse and a French coordinator, were freed after three days.) "In Darfur, kidnappings were basically unheard of until the indictment of Bashir," says MSF's Buth, who previously worked in Sudan. "These incidents are all very specific to the context...
...History of Art and Architecture degree may not, at first glance, seem useful to an entrepreneur. But when former art history concentrator Ben M. Sack ’07, now director of the consulting firm Boylston Technology Group, was thinking about how to pitch a strange-sounding brand of French wool, what came to mind immediately was his senior thesis on Picasso and semantics, which helped him craft a visual pun for the brand...
...favorite crossword clue of all time?Douglas I. Goodman (DIG): Can I tell you my least favorite? It was at a tournament in Brooklyn, my debut onto the crossword scene and the clue asked for the word at the end of a love letter, except love letter was in French. I put ‘solo’ but the answer was ‘xoxo.’ I just missed qualifying to the finals.RR: Not that you’re bitter about it or anything.DIG: No, but my wife was. That’s why I came here...
...what he heard was adoration. Crowds lined the route of Obama's motorcade in London. Members of the foreign press twice applauded after Obama's press conferences, and the streets of Prague had been graffitied with a stenciled Obama portrait. The excitable French President Nicolas Sarkozy pronounced it "a hell of a good piece of news" that Obama understood that "the world does not boil down to simply American frontiers and borders...
...Lounge (at about the midpoint of Serendipity Beach). The town's former main drag, a 10-min. ride northwest of that area, is called Victory Hill. The crowd there comprises mostly older Western men and their young Cambodian companions, which is a little creepy, but we had a nice French dinner...