Word: hardships
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...best DVD to give is clearly The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Though traditionally a “guy” movie reserved for dads and Tolkien nerds with thick spectacles, the average American mother endures a lot of hardship during the holiday season, and a good dose of fantasy is likely what she needs. After dealing with loads of banal domestic tasks, a husband who imbibed a gallon of eggnog and hit on her brother, and snobby, demanding children home from Swedish boarding school, the comfort of Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) is a great...
...combatants caught in the crossfire in Darfur, however, each day brings new hardship as the population of the already resource-stretched refugee camps swells with new arrivals. The sprawling Abu Shouk camp outside of Al Fashir, home to some 52,000 displaced villagers, has begun to assume an air of permanence. Feeble tarp-and-twig shelters have been replaced by mud huts, ringed by high walls with cattle tethered inside. The camp's clinics are no longer makeshift, and a teeming market has sprouted nearby. "This is my home now," says Fadna Haroun Abdelmamout, a recent refugee from a village...
...Saddam's swindle work? In 1995, the Iraqis suffered from food shortages caused by U.N. sanctions imposed after Gulf War I. The U.N. created the oil-for-food program, which allowed Iraq to sell its oil to alleviate the hardship but stipulated that the revenue could be used for food and medical supplies only. Saddam's government ignored the restrictions. It added illegal surcharges and demanded kickbacks, generating billions for Iraq's purchase of weapons and construction of palaces...
...took the spring semester off from school in order to train and recover from his injury, while also applying for a medical hardship waiver to be eligible to play with the Crimson for at least half of the 2006-2007 season...
...being hammered and crushed and killed so many times. It rises from the bottom of wounds, pains, failures and defeats. His mistakes hurt you, bad, but after all he did he came back home, looked you in the eye, cried and embraced you. You and he, in times of hardship, were always together. Whether it was Amman, Beirut, or Ramallah, he was, literally with you in your pain. He held your shoulders and no matter how dark it got, you always knew he was right there next to you, and you were more than ready to take a bullet...