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...Rudd's early-hardship story tumbled out effortlessly: When Kevin was 11, his sharefarmer father died in hospital six weeks after a road accident and the family had to leave the farm; as a boy, he was smitten by China and eventually went off to study its language and history at the Australian National University. He met Therese Rein, his future wife, at ANU and worked his way through school doing menial jobs. But when asked questions about his professional career, Rudd has a tendency to overplay his breadth of experience. A week after he became leader, Rudd's eight...
...complained as he officially announced that active-duty Army troops in Afghanistan and Iraq will stay there for 15 months, instead of the planned 12, until further notice. "And I can't tell you how angry it makes many of us that one individual would create potentially so much hardship not only for our servicemen and -women, but their families, by letting them read about something like this in the newspapers...
...inside the Israeli occupation of Palestine” so they can “photograph their situation as they live it.” The Balata camp, founded in 1950, is the home of 21,903 registered inhabitants, according to the U.N. It houses nearly 700 families designated as hardship cases, and was especially active during the First Intifada, the Palestinian uprising that occurred from 1987 to 1993. In front of a room overflowing with spectators, two girls—Sabreen and Tahreer, 15—and a boy, Taha, 16, each recounted a different aspect of their experience...
...historic center littered with trash as well as warnings from locals not to go out at night when purse snatchers and gang members reign. Celiento does not believe that either the city's habitual skirting of the law or the Camorra culture of death is rooted in the economic hardship. "A culture of civility comes before any economic question," says Celiento. "It must start in families. The first time I find my son without a helmet, I'll simply take his moped away...
Will TIME publish a cover image depicting John F. Kennedy crying over "How the Democrats Went Wrong?" I'm sure Kennedy believed it when he said, "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." But few contemporary Democrats have shown the will to apply his determination in Iraq. Mark Shreeve, DANDRIDGE, TENN...