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...This slum doesn't have a name. The 5,000 residents call it Ban Chua Gan, which translates roughly as Do It Yourself Happy Homes. The expanse of jerry-rigged wood-frame huts with corrugated steel roofs sprawls in a murky bog in Bangkok's Sukhumvit district, in the shadow of 40-story office buildings and glass-plated corporate towers. The inhabitants migrated here about a decade ago from villages all around Thailand. Jacky came from Nakon Nayok, a province near Bangkok's Don Muang airport, seeking financial redemption in the Asian economic miracle. And for a while...
...discussion "opened up what is possible within a science major," Lin Gan '00 said, describing the panelists as "three very successful women who know what they want...
...ensuing struggle is nasty and getting nastier. Cars have been stoned. Religious centers have been fire bombed. Excrement has been thrown. People on both sides have been assaulted on the street. A Prime Minister has been murdered. Says Menachem Friedman, a sociologist at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan: "We are really near the edge [of] where people can tolerate each other...
...founder of Lorimar Telepictures, and Marvin Josephson, founder of International Creative Management--did not receive the promised monetary support from the Israeli government because their conception of an anniversary celebration differed sharply from Israelis.' That is, the planned events, including a celebrity-stocked show broadcast worldwide from the Ramat Gan stadium near Tel Aviv organized by the people who organized the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics opening ceremonies, were considered too flashy, shallow and expensive--in short, too American. Almost everything the Committee had planned, including an international gathering of distinguished Jews in Jerusalem and the shuttling of 50,000 Jewish...
...voted yes. I don't think the reasons they have against grapes are that strong," said Lin Gan '00. "I don't think [the boycott] is going to make that big a difference. If people want to help workers there are so many more efficient ways...