Word: hereness
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"I asked my wife one time, Why is that? And she said, 'Because you have no control.' " He paused. "Here, I have a little control," he said, tapping the plane's conference table. (See pictures of Robert Gates' career in government.)
If Beijing is internationally synonymous with any one dish, it's surely roast duck. But judging by the city's vast legion of hotpot restaurants, it seems that the locals have an even greater penchant for shuan rou (rinsing meat, as the practice of simmering tidbits in various kinds of...
"People are tired of oppression here. We go into the street and get searched and arrested. There is discrimination here," says Om Ahmed, who has two adult sons in jail and two on the run. "The police don't treat our sons the way they treat the Egyptians' sons." (Read...
And when Egypt's steel wall seals off trade with Gaza, tensions could explode in Sinai. "This is the beginning," says Abu Daoud, sipping tea next to an evening campfire. "The people are still poor, but there has to be a revolution someday. It has to happen because there is...
On Jan. 29, weeks after a devastating earthquake in Haiti killed hundreds of thousands of people, 10 members of a U.S. church group were detained by Haitian authorities for attempting to illegally take 33 children out of the country. The Americans maintained that they were merely trying to rescue the...