Word: hardships
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...backs a war, it would be fairly easy to imagine a postconflict administration in Iraq under U.N. auspices--even if the U.N. had to work with an American military proconsul. Inevitably, the U.N.'s humanitarian agencies will establish an early presence in Iraq to ameliorate short-term hardship. But the U.S., says U.N. Under Secretary-General Shashi Tharoor, has not yet asked the U.N. to prepare for a role in longer-term reconstruction. Assuming the U.N. is indeed asked to help with that task--which is the private assumption of top officials at U.N. headquarters in New York City--there...
...choristers wrote Iwe AIDS: "You killed my father, you killed my mother ... I remain all alone." Dry, cracked streambeds are evidence of the unbroken drought. Some villagers are eating tree bark. More than 150,000 in the Matabeleland North province rely on foreign food aid. Here, as elsewhere, hardship is linked to politics. In the 2000 parliamentary elections, the mdc swept all eight seats in the province, its rural heartland. Last year, 61% of Matabeleland North voters chose Tsvangirai over Mugabe for President. Suffrage isn't supposed to bring suffering, but the people are still paying for their votes...
...three choices: defer his enrollment and graduate late; accept an enrollment extension until Sept. 30; or he could try to get HLS credit for classes taken in England under an existing “hardship-out” program for students who cannot return to campus due to extenuating circumstances...
...Chinese side of Siberia, the scenery is so desolate that its most notable features are heaps of coal piled so high they look like mountains. Many of the townspeople are laid-off coal miners, hopelessly cut off from the fruits of China's heralded economic boom. Still, hardship has taught them not to gripe about their lot in life. "What pleasant weather we're having," says the local bathhouse owner, ignoring that it's 30 degrees below zero. "We eat leeks and coriander now instead of just cabbage," enthuses a local kebab seller over his simple lunch of dumplings. "Coal...
...wrote down his funny thoughts in fistfuls of plays and novels, but with the Red Guards attacking the least twitch of non-conformity, he burned all of his early writing as a precaution. This sacrifice didn't save him from being exiled to the countryside for "reeducation." Despite the hardship and the risk, he kept writing in secret, burying his manuscripts in jars of potter's clay each night. He did it because he had no other choice. "Writing was the only way to relieve my loneliness...