Word: hardships
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...stoned adulterers. Violent, summary justice is what many people would think of when it comes to this city. But these days, Rahimi says, the stadium is used for sports once more, and is where the country's 2008 Olympic athletes are being trained. There is hope amid the hardship in Kabul...
...collection “Songs of Innocence,” and Maggie is struck by the opposition she sees between her own life experience and the pastoral idyll of childhood in the poems—mothers gazing lovingly upon their sleeping infants and so on—and the hardships that come with age. Having experienced hardship in Piddletrenthide, Jem is not so convinced of the opposition.“Dunno as they be opposites exactly,” he muses.In an intriguing speculative move, Chevalier places Jem and Maggie as muses of sorts, helping the poet to work towards...
...Hamas is feeling confident, having gotten almost everything it wanted while giving up little in the negotiations with Fatah. But Haniyeh understands that Hamas needs to ease financial hardship in the territories. "We will do what is required of us as Palestinians to unite and reinforce ties with the international community," said the Prime Minister. In an interview with a London-based Arab newspaper, Dr. Ahmed Youssuf, Haniyeh's chief advisor, said Hamas' hard-line ideology could change over time, or at least evolve somewhat. "The political reality is leading to changes in some of the ideas of the movement...
...political views on Iraq aside. At 19, as I ponder my current toughest decisions—whether to take a class with one Nobel laureate or another—I hope that something I’m learning here will prepare me for the kind of decisions and hardship that we must all face at some point...
This country of 9 million has long prided itself on being one of the world's most hospitable to foreigners fleeing war and hardship. After the 1991 Gulf War, Sweden took in thousands of Iraqi Shi'ites and Kurds. But nothing could have prepared Swedes for the numbers of Iraqis who are pouring in today. While most of the 2 million Iraqis who have left since the U.S. invasion in 2003 have remained in the Middle East, a growing number are trying to make their way out of the region, in search of refuge and the promise...