Word: gardened
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...more than three months a small public garden facing the prominent Mostapha Mahmoud mosque in Cairo?s upscale Mohandessin neighborhood had been occupied by more than 2,000 Sudanese refugees. The refugees chose the garden because it faces the regional office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The leaders of the sit-in had one important demand: to be processed for transfer to a Western country. They refused any half-measure, especially being returned to Darfur in southern Sudan; or to be resettled in Egypt, where they say they suffer from discrimination and random arrest. The trouble...
...garbage proliferating. Three refugee children died because of illness and exposure to cold temperatures. Meanwhile, mosque personnel complained that the Sudanese were sitting on the sidewalk beside the mosque getting drunk and leaving their alcohol bottles littering the pavement. And, in the first week of January, the small garden had to be free to accommodate the thousands of pious Muslims who were expected gather for prayer around the mosque to mark the holy Bayram feast...
...argued that the Sudanese were violating the law with their annexation of the park and were under an obligation to respect their host country. The Egyptian foreign ministry added that Cairo had to take action after requests by the UNHCR to end the protest because the refugees in the garden did not qualify for the legal immigrant status and many were staying illegally after the expiration of their visas. For the survivors, they have been expelled from their garden and face the new year in camps in the desert, under the shadow of the Dahshur pyramids...
...Shuttles, in addition to being convenient, ensure student safety, and the author fails to mention the number of sexual assaults that have occurred along Garden Street in recent years. There are indeed worse things to imagine than “making it more difficult for Harvard students to avoid getting some fresh...
...column “It’s the Funding, Stupid,” Goldenberg argues for evenly-distributed House Committee (HoCo) funds because Harvard cannot fully justify randomized housing when resources are not evenly distributed between Houses. Yet in “Nightmare on Garden St.” he contends that Quad residents’ needs should be ignored, even though they live in the Quad, as a consequence of the very same randomized housing system. Though equal HoCo funding is necessary to justify randomized housing, the author apparently believes equal student voice and equal access to academic...